dǎ​pò​shā​guō​wèn​dào​dǐ

to get to the bottom of things

打破砂锅问到底 打破砂鍋問到底 dǎ​pò​shā​guō​wèn​dào​dǐ
to get to the bottom of things
To insist on getting a detailed answer or finding out the root cause of something. This idiom is a pun: a broken clay pot has a crack that goes to the bottom, and the word for crack wèn sounds like the word for ask wèn.

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