tick a lot of boxes

English

Verb

tick a lot of boxes (third-person singular simple present ticks a lot of boxes, present participle ticking a lot of boxes, simple past and past participle ticked a lot of boxes)

  1. (idiomatic) Synonym of tick all the boxes.
    • 2025 October 1, David Stubbings, “FirstGroup not giving up on WCML open access routes”, in RAIL, number 1045, page 6:
      "It ticks a lot of boxes," he said, noting the Rochdale plan had a not primarily abstractive (NPA) score of 0.34, passing the ORR threshold of 0.3.
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