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get to the bottom of

verb as in cut the Gordian knot

verb as in plumb

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As chair of the House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight, he’s been working the angles on this story since 2023, claiming that he couldn’t get the cooperation he needed to really get to the bottom of it.

From Salon

“I hope they get to the bottom of it,” the Fox News host said.

From Salon

The pushback by supervisors is notable because they commissioned the report in January and vowed it would get to the bottom of what went wrong.

He continued: “This is absolutely unacceptable, and I hope they get to the bottom of it, and I hope they really injure, emotionally, the people that did it.”

“We have people, including the United States Secret Service, looking into this to get to the bottom of it.”

From Salon

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

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