drill down

British

verb

(intr, adverb) to look at or examine something in depth

to drill down through financial data

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There’s a great scene where Carol and Zosia are both getting massages, where Carol’s trying to drill down on that.

From The Wall Street Journal

“We’ve done a lot of that over the years. But we have to drill down on that.”

From Los Angeles Times

"These are massive issues... when you drill down into examples of how this might be applied, it has big implications for individuals, it has big implications for businesses and public services," he said.

From BBC

They then took a week to drill down through the ice to get the two deepest core samples, with the temperature dropping to minus 18C at night.

From Barron's

She doesn’t really drill down that hard.

From Los Angeles Times

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