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get to the bottom of

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get to the bottom of something
Fig. to get an understanding of the causes of something. We must get to the bottom of this problem immediately. There is clearly something wrong here, and I want to get to the bottom of it.
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get to the bottom of something
to discover the truth about a situation (often + question word) The family finally got to the bottom of why their boy was killed. How will investigators get to the bottom of the affair with so little evidence?
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get to the bottom of something
to discover the truth about something The electric company has not yet gotten to the bottom of why we had such a huge blackout.
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Detective Inspector Karnail Dulku, of Middlesbrough CID, said: "We have made strenuous efforts to get to the bottom of this terrible tragedy, which resulted in the deaths of a mother and her two young children.
 
 
 
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