查个水落石出
“We'll get to the bottom of this”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
报警
“Call the police.”
查个 水落石出
“We'll get to the bottom of this”
我揍他一顿
“so I can beat the culprit up.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In Chinese conflict resolution, parties often oscillate between formal institutional accountability (reporting to the police to uncover the truth) and emotional personal retaliation.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
the truth is fully revealed (literally: the stones emerge as the water recedes)
A common four-character idiom (chengyu) used when demanding a thorough investigation or stating that hidden facts will eventually come to light.
conduct a thorough investigation to the point of...
A colloquial verbal structure where '个' acts as an informal resultative marker indicating thoroughness or extreme degree.
