down to bedrock

down to bedrock

Focused on the most important aspects of a particular situation. Often used in the phrase "get down to bedrock." Let's get down to bedrock so that everyone has a good grasp on the project overall before we split up to do our separate parts.
See also: bedrock, down
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • bedrock
  • come a gutser
  • be down to (one)
  • be down to somebody/something
  • be down to something
  • be down to (do something)
  • bounce up and down
  • ask down
  • close down
  • close down and shut down
References in periodicals archive
The memorial to Abraham Lincoln sits on a man-made eminence built with fill from the Potomac River and is supported on concrete pilings sunk 44 to 65 feet down to bedrock.
Yet to get down to bedrock, below the peat bog, would mean drilling deep.
The bathtub is a nine-block area of the site that was excavated down to bedrock and hard soils and then ringed by a slurry wall to ensure stability of the World Trade Center's Twin Towers foundations.
Rochon lost a bit of time setting the foundation for the grocery store by digging down to bedrock; a job that would normally take four to six weeks took 16 because of the massive amounts of rock it encountered.
If ever a race exploded the myth the Flat can be a somewhat namby-pamby pastime, then it was this battle royal because it went well beyond a mere test of stamina and took the first three home into the territory where courage has to be mined down to bedrock.
Under the structure, workers in full personal protection equipment remove soil by excavator and sometimes by hand, digging down to bedrock to find and remove debris.
Perhaps the most chilling part of the museum, in its current form, is a battered staircase that leads down to bedrock, where the exhibits will be displayed.
The land is unstable and not useable for building, Short says, and his proposal is to extract remaining rock from the ceiling of the mine, taking it down to bedrock. The operation would crush the rock and sell it.
Over in Earlville, pickups and 4x4s have worn a dirt road down to bedrock paved with cephalopods and pelecypods, making it a tantalizing, but hazardous, place to collect.
and European teams worked to drill down to bedrock beneath the Greenland ice sheet.
Twenty-seven pilings go down to bedrock, and the roof is slate.
The team drilled more than 2.5km down to bedrock as part of the North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling project (NEEM).
Tar sands extraction byproducts include immense rates of carbon emissions, removal of soil down to bedrock, permanent deforestation of carbon- storing forests, water pollution in the billions of gallons, poisonous sludge ponds that will kill tens of thousands of birds and poison fish, ecological deterioration and depopulation of rural communities accompanied by destruction of local cultures.
The characterization of the sediments, down to bedrock, is very important from the seismological point of view in order to study the possible earthquake effects (site effects).