Brewer's: Dovetail

Metaphorically, to fit on or fit in nicely; to correspond. It is a word in carpentry, and means the fitting one board into another by a tenon in the shape of a dove's tail, or wedge reversed.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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