🗓️ Idiom: Tick all the boxes (v)
💬 Meaning
- To meet all the required criteria or standards.
- To satisfy all the necessary conditions, especially in formal processes.
🧠 Example Sentences
- Our new reporting system ticks all the boxes for the latest compliance regulations.
- To pass the audit, the company had to tick all the boxes on the regulatory checklist.
- This training course ticks all the boxes for data protection certification.
🏛️ Origin
This idiom comes from the act of checking off boxes on forms or checklists, which are common in compliance and regulatory work. When every box is ticked, all the requirements have been met.
📝 Practice Exercises
1. Fill in the blank:
Before launching the product, we must ensure it __________.
Answer
ticks all the boxes
2. Choose the correct meaning of “tick all the boxes”:
A) To remove unnecessary options
B) To complete something quickly
C) To meet all necessary conditions
Answer
C) To meet all necessary conditions
3. Change the sentence using “tick all the boxes”:
“The compliance officer said the project met every requirement perfectly.”
Answer
The compliance officer said the project ticked all the boxes.
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Rob is a CELTA qualified English teacher with 15 years of international experience. He has a BSc and PGDip from Loughborough and St Andrews universities in the UK. He has taught in Thailand and Saudi Arabia and now works with professionals worldwide.
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