捯线头
Traditional (Taiwan):
捯線頭
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to trace something back to its cause or origin
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Idiom惯用语 · Rarely used now
- Literally
- hauling in the thread end
- Meaning
- To trace something back to its cause or origin, as when you pull in a thread hand over hand. Used for investigating how a matter began.
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