dǎ​pò​shā​guō​wèn​dào​dǐ

to get to the bottom of things

Senses

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 璺 wèn sounds like the word for ask 问 wèn.

References

variant 打破砂锅问到底/打破砂鍋問到底 → 打破砂锅璺到底/打破砂鍋璺到底