To discover the origin of a problem, or the fundamental truth of an issue or event. The word “bottom” has been used in this way (to mean ultimate cause) since the sixteenth century.
Shakespeare used it numerous times, as in “Is there no pity . . . that sees
into the bottom of my grief?” (Romeo and Juliet, 3.5). Several early proverbs
also refer to “bottom” in this way: “If thou canst not see the bottom, wade
not”; and “He brought the bottome of the bag cleane out” (John Heywood,
1546). The pioneer anthropologist James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, wrote
in 1773 (Of the Origin and Progress of Language), “In order to get to the bot-
tom of this question.”
Three individuals have been apprehended in the case of the lithium pools,
according to the Prosecutor's Office.
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So far, three individuals have been apprehended in the investigation into
the industrial evaporation pools of Bolivian Lithium Deposits (YLB),
reported ...
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