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get to the bottom of

verb as in cut the Gordian knot

verb as in plumb

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Cue screaming headlines about fear and loathing at the top of government, and a deeply awkward public appearance for the prime minister himself where he had to claim that no one in his team had done anything wrong, and that he'd get to the bottom of it, to make jolly sure.

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“I need to understand how that works. That process is core to LAHSA. If that is not working effectively and it doesn’t appear to be, we need to get to the bottom of that and make sure it is.”

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“You know that something is ‘fishy,’” he wrote, “We will get to the bottom of it very quickly.”

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The Hillsborough families spent decades trying to get to the bottom of what happened before and in the early stages of the match between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest.

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Weber’s office told The Times it doesn’t know the intent behind the Ballot Now text messages, and “we are trying to get to the bottom of it.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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