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discover some bad or hidden information about
She got the goods on her co-worker after reading his e-mail
How To Use get the goods In A Sentence
- We can only get the goods ready if the factory works round the clock.
- We not only will be doing more complete package work, but also ensuring that the proper logistics are in place to get the goods to the customers on time.
- Beyond all other men, he knows when to talk, and when to refrain from talking, -- how to throw the burden of negotiation on the seller, -- how to get the goods he wants at his own price, not at _his_ asking, but on _the suggestion of the seller_, prompted by his own politely obvious unwillingness to have the seller part with his merchandise at any price not entirely acceptable to himself. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861
- And where was my tape with that heavyweight whose name I am still afraid to mention, given that my meeting with him was part of an investigative mission to get the goods on a nogoodnik agent in the boxing business? Amy Lennard Goehner: A Boxing Broad's Memories Sparked by the Death of the Iconic Angelo Dundee
- The goods are in bond; on paying duty you can get the goods out of bond.
- The goods are in bond; on paying duty you can get the goods out of bond.