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get to the bottom of
Idioms and Phrases
Find the basic underlying quality or cause of something. For example, He was determined to get to the bottom of the problem . [Late 1700s] Also see at bottom .Example Sentences
"This is clearly a controversial matter and our ministers will use their position at the executive table to not only get to the bottom of how the decision was made but put a marker down that public money cannot be used to further Sinn Féin's pet project," the DUP leader said.
"It's embarrassing. We're going to get to the bottom of it."
"I will get to the bottom of whether they violated my order, who ordered this and what the consequences will be," the judge said at a hearing last Friday.
On Friday, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., vowed to “get to the bottom†of whether the Trump administration defied his order to hold off on the deportations while lawsuits challenging the expulsions played out in court.
"The government's not being terribly co-operative at this point, but I will get to the bottom of whether they violated my word," he said.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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