have the goods on
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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
Did the Justice Department have the goods on Fortas?
From Salon • Apr. 7, 2022
Sheriff Ricky Edwards is one of the people Brown claims to have the goods on.
From New York Times • Oct. 25, 2016
They attacked Peyton Manning and didn’t have the goods on him.
From Washington Times • Jan. 13, 2016
"We have the goods on him, all right."
From The Moving Picture Boys on the War Front Or, The Hunt for the Stolen Army Films by Appleton, Victor [pseud.]
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