Meaning of GET TO THE BOTTOM OF IT - A Really Short English Lesson with Subtitles
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So in English if I say I'm going to get to
the bottom of it, it means that I'm going
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to find out who did something.
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Let me tell you a small story.
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One time, a few years ago, my wife and I were
working outside and the kids were all in the
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house playing.
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When my wife and I came in from our work we
noticed that the TV was broken, and all of
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the kids denied that they were the ones who
broke it.
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So I decide that I was going to get to the
bottom of it.
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I was going to find out who actually broke
the TV.
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So I asked each of my children individually
if they had broken the TV, and you know what?
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All of them said that they hadn't broken it.
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So I wasn't able to get to the bottom of it.
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I never found out who broke the TV.
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I wish my children had just told me the truth.
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Probably they didn't because they thought
I would get angry.
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