(a) blow-by-blow account (of something)

(a) blow-by-blow account (of something)
a ˌblow-by-ˌblow acˈcount, deˈscription, etc. (of sth) idiom
(informal) a description of an event which gives you all the details in the order in which they happen

He insisted on giving us a blow-by-blow account of what had happened.

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