get the goods

1. 1.

   discover some bad or hidden information about

   “She got the goods on her co-worker after reading his e-mail”

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Questions about get the goods

What does get the goods mean?

get the goods means "discover some bad or hidden information about".

Is get the goods a common word?

get the goods is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.