Brewer's: 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.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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