Citations:exactly


 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * The Spirit stood among the graves, and pointed down to One. He advanced towards it trembling. The Phantom was exactly as it had been, but he dreaded that he saw new meaning in its solemn shape.
 * 1973, United States Congress, Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, Subcommittee on Public Lands, Eastern Wilderness Areas, p. 73:
 * I told them that this was exactly what I did not want, that this would subject me to a legitimate charge of conflict of interest, and that I wanted it blocked in a way that would make me have to walk too.
 * 1983, John Lowe, Japanese Crafts, p. 63:
 * Since so many gifts in Japan turn out to be 'exactly what one did not want', this etiquette of silence provides admirable protection.
 * 2008, Joan M. Gattuso, The Lotus Still Blooms: Sacred Buddhist Teachings for the Western Mind, p. 118:
 * Her whole attitude toward me changed immediately, which was exactly what I did not want.
 * 2012, Jonathan A. Segal, Janet B. Allen, Telephone Fund Raising, p. 35:
 * The caller got exactly what he did not want: a negative response
 * 2013, Ella Cheever Thayer, Wired Love: A Romance of Dots and Dashes:
 * But that, as Clem said, was exactly what they did not want!