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LEAVE NO STONE UNTURNED
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Search thoroughly and exhaustively
Example:
The police left no stone unturned in looking for the President's murderer
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "leave no stone unturned" is one way to...):
look for; search; seek (try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s