get to the bottom of
idiom
: to find out the true reason for or cause of (something)
Police are working furiously to get to the bottom of this recent string of violent crimes.
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The science behind those purple streetlights To get to the bottom of what was happening, a group of lighting experts called the LED Systems Reliability Consortium came together to research the problem.
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Elizabeth Weise, USA Today, 29 Mar. 2025
To get to the bottom of this mystery, Deng and colleagues performed a high-resolution hydrodynamic simulation of close encounters between two circumstellar disks around infant stars.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 10 Mar. 2025
Barcelona requested extensive analysis on his muscle fibres to get to the bottom of his injury record, the results of which indicated that Pedri needed to undergo more strength work in the gym.
—Pol Ballús, The Athletic, 7 Feb. 2025
Here is how Trump's team reacted to a Hillary Clinton security breach
Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff was even more direct in vowing to get to the bottom of whether the security breach violated laws like the Espionage Act, which prohibits gathering, transmitting or losing national defense information.
—Josh Meyer, USA Today, 26 Mar. 2025
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Elizabeth Weise, USA Today, 29 Mar. 2025
To get to the bottom of this mystery, Deng and colleagues performed a high-resolution hydrodynamic simulation of close encounters between two circumstellar disks around infant stars.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 10 Mar. 2025
Barcelona requested extensive analysis on his muscle fibres to get to the bottom of his injury record, the results of which indicated that Pedri needed to undergo more strength work in the gym.
—Pol Ballús, The Athletic, 7 Feb. 2025
Here is how Trump's team reacted to a Hillary Clinton security breach
Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff was even more direct in vowing to get to the bottom of whether the security breach violated laws like the Espionage Act, which prohibits gathering, transmitting or losing national defense information.
—Josh Meyer, USA Today, 26 Mar. 2025
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“Get to the bottom of.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/get%20to%20the%20bottom%20of. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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