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get to the bottom of
verb as in cut the Gordian knot
Example Sentences
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.
“I hope they get to the bottom of it,” the Fox News host said.
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.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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