WordNet
to be precise
adv. in actual fact; "properly speaking, they are not husband and wife" [syn: properly speaking, strictly speaking]
Usage examples of "to be precise".
One of our women, to be precise, with a secret yen for sable, silk and sapphires.
He said he would tailor the operation to be precise, keeping the incisions as small as possible, hopefully making them within one millimeter of the lesions.
It was fairly long range for such a small gun, but he didn't have to be precise.
This man might think she was someone else-a Spanish criminal to be precise-but she could straighten all that out once he'd taken her far, far away.