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English idiom

deep dive

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Figurative meaning

a thorough, detailed examination of a topic, problem, or dataset

Why this phrase?

From diving: going deep beneath the surface, where the real structure lives.

Example

“Let's do a deep dive into the retention data before we touch the onboarding flow.”

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