tick all the boxes

An allusion to check marks made beside each of the items in a checklist.

• "As a presidential candidate, Sherzai ticked all the boxes. He is Pashtun; . . . he has the necessary respect . . . ; and he possesses a national reputation."
• "But he not only ticks all the boxes mentioned by Mr. Martins — musical responsiveness, use of the ballet vocabulary, a striking sense of spatial architecture — he also shows, in this work, much more."
• ""If he continues ticking all the boxes and progressing and improving as he is, I don't think it will be long before he's on top.""
• "Assuming you have ticked all your safety boxes, financial incentives decide priorities."

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