Probe
. I must probe that matter to the bottom—must narrowly examine into it. The allusion is to a surgeon probing a wound, or searching for some extraneous substance in the body.
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Entry taken from
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable,
edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.