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*onto someone
seeing through someone's deception. (*Typically: be ~; get ~; catch ~.) By the time we got on to the con artists, they were out of town. The sheriff got onto Jed, and Jed wanted to get out of town fast.

*onto something 

1. Fig. alerted to or aware of a deceitful plan. (*Typically: be ~; catch ~.) The cops are onto your little game here. Fig. having found something useful or promising; on the verge of discovering something. (*Typically: be ~; get ~.) I think we are really onto something this time. lam onto a new discovery.


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International Ludwig Wittgenstein Symposium (29th: 2006: Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria) Ontos Verlag 2007 431 pages $89.
34) Still more striking is the similarity between Panthea's beauty in 'episode' 4 and the first appearance of Anthea and Abrocomes in the novel: And the people, beautiful as was the sight of Abradates and his chariot (kalou ontos tou theamatos tou te Abradatou), had no eyes for him, until Panthea was gone (apelthe) (Xen.
Fota Island, sixth behind Hardy Eustace and Rooster Booster at Cheltenham, Ontos, Scarthy Lad and French raider Roscoff complete the line-up for the race, which carries a first prize of EUR96,000.
 
 
 
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