have the goods
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“We will know whether they have the goods if they can show them at a jury trial.”
From Salon ● May 24, 2025
“We don’t have the goods that we were used to anymore,” Pozo said.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 23, 2024
The authors claim to have the goods on an “intermittent but repeated presence of multiple individual birds with field marks and behaviors consistent with those of Ivory-billed Woodpeckers” in Louisiana.
From Slate ● May 27, 2023
And so we have a very careful process by which we investigate, we evaluate documents, we evaluate data, we consult experts, and then when we have the goods, we file a case.
From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2023
The army and people of the allied countries have already paid too much not to have the goods delivered.
From "Over There" with the Australians by R. Hugh (Reginald Hugh) Knyvett
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