get to the bottom of
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Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said, “We collectively are going to do everything possible to get to the bottom of this, to get justice, and to make sure that there is an investigation that is conducted in full.”
From Slate
“Now my job is to get to the bottom of that with the doctors and then embark on the hard work of fixing it, which I don’t look forward to, because I feel like hard work is all I do,” Lilly said in the video.
From Los Angeles Times
The president of the New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies, David Ossip, was hailed with loud cheers as he called for a "Royal Commission which goes beyond New South Wales, to get to the bottom of how this catastrophe took place".
From BBC
The prime minister has said he will "get to the bottom" of where damaging leaks about the Budget and against his Cabinet are coming from.
From BBC
"I'll get to the bottom of these leaks," he said.
From BBC
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