Brewer's: Finished to the Finger-nail

or “ad unguem, ” in allusion to statuaries running their finger-tips over a statue to detect if any roughness or imperfection of surface remains.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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