'It's like a connect-the-dots map,' Edith said excitedly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moonwar]

What happens next isn't a connect-the-dots genre exercise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Faded Glories and Foreign Flavors] Reference

A connect-the-dots trail of fuckups and stutters and regrets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Are You Okay?] Reference

It's like I'm drunk and doing a connect-the-dots or something.    From Wordnik.com.  [In ur blog, postin for beers.] Reference

The movie is a glorified connect-the-dots with no internal logic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Movie Review: National Treasure: Book of Secrets] Reference

It was the dot I left unconnected in the big BSG connect-the-dots.    From Wordnik.com.  [Caprica: There is Another Sky - Pink Raygun.com] Reference

An unseen spider has been playing "connect-the-dots" with the fruit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing] Reference

The financial reform bill is like a gigantic, half-completed connect-the-dots puzzle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harry Moroz: The Urbanity of Financial Reform] Reference

Our childhoods become a connect-the-dots visual picture rendered by occasional photographs.    From Wordnik.com.  [stopbath] Reference

Because wildfires, we can't -- it's hard to make a connect-the-dots moment here in all of this.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 9, 2008] Reference

I mean, there has to be a certain degree of causality in--connect-the-dots in American politics.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Imperfect '10] Reference

Could we first dispense with the smarmy connect-the-dots answer this question seems to cry out for?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Freakonomics Quorum: The Economics of Street Charity - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference

Ever since 9/11, the connect-the-dots problem has preoccupied law-enforcement and intelligence agencies.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Cities, the Fight Against Terrorism Walks the Beat] Reference

They were long gone but his eyes played a game of connect-the-dots with the bits of tape still stuck there.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Coffin Dancer]

Understanding the connection between happiness and profitable sales has required a connect-the-dots voyage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rick Foster: The Biochemistry of Sales] Reference

You can't have a connect-the-dots intelligence community if its director doesn't know as much as a CNN reporter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Morning Bits] Reference

Wear yoo b travlin? ai uset 2 libb in NE, 2. my hubby-bubby is frum connect-the-dots, and wii libbed in Bawston.    From Wordnik.com.  [DE GIGGLES - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference

People in this country better pull their collective heads out and connect-the-dots to see what is happening here.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Christian Hate Group ‘Repent Amarillo’ Terrorizes Texas Town, Harassing Gays, Liberals, And Other ‘Sinners’] Reference

I was also aware of the speedy, just accept it, connect-the-dots logic that Peter Joseph uses to erect his arguments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zeitgeist: Addendum] Reference

What Moore did was connect-the-dots with his plot-points but it was not satisfying, it was infuriating and at times ridiculous.    From Wordnik.com.  [VARIANTS: DAYBREAK, PT II - REVIEW] Reference

Brother and I understandably discarded our connect-the-dots game, as I envisioned red carpets, and he pictured huge body guards.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warm Springs (copy)] Reference

I don't think any idea is completely novel; everything builds upon past experience and invention, so it's more like connect-the-dots.    From Wordnik.com.  [evolver Diary Entry] Reference

He sat back and surveyed the neat boxes and their straight little connecting lines, what he knew of Bob DeCreft's life reduced to connect-the-dots.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fire and Ice]

He reportedly told at least one police officer that his aim was to plant bombs in a connect-the-dots happy face pattern across the central United States.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 13, 2002] Reference

This wasn't a simple connect-the-dots guide for newbies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Copyblogger] Reference

But informally, it calls it "connect-the-dots technology.".    From Wordnik.com.  [SplicedFeed] Reference

The Stargates offer a chance at connect-the-dots salvation.    From Wordnik.com.  [TheState.com: The Buzz] Reference

Evidence of the program's "connect-the-dots" identity system.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bobulate] Reference

This makes for a rather interesting game of legal connect-the-dots.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blog@Newsarama] Reference

There are no right answers, proven-out formulas, connect-the-dots kits.    From Wordnik.com.  [What About Paris?] Reference

The screenplay and plot structure is a connect-the-dots kind of film, complete with twist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twitch] Reference

White's research is a kind of connect-the-dots for an obscure missing piece of ocean science.    From Wordnik.com.  [TheState.com: The Buzz] Reference

The 1981 PBS introductions provide context, not to mention a connect-the-dots of Golden Age players.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

As images are posted, an image of a timepiece becomes clear, drawn across the map connect-the-dots style.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warren Ellis] Reference

Those familiar with the investigations caution against "playing connect-the-dots" with these three distinct cases.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Spectator] Reference

The finished collection includes traditional renderings, a connect-the-dots fly, and one created on a Wolly Bugger magnet pad.    From Wordnik.com.  [News] Reference

Both brands of connect-the-dots fantasy reflect the tellers 'anxieties much more than any order actually emerging in the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reason Magazine] Reference