For Chapter and Verse?

If you say that someone gives you chapter and verse on a particular subject, you are emphasizing that they tell you every detail about it. She came home and gave me chapter and verse about going to his place after a drink.

What does the saying chapter and verse mean?

Definition of chapter and verse

1 : the exact reference or source of information or justification for an assertion clinched their arguments by citing chapter and verse— J. M. Burns. 2 : full precise information or detail can give chapter and verse on the effects of diverting defense spending— Horace Sutton.

What is the difference between a verse and a chapter?

As nouns the difference between chapter and verse

is that chapter is one of the main sections into which the text of a book is divided while verse is a poetic form with regular meter and a fixed rhyme scheme.