pry into

pry into (something)

1. To force entry into something using a lever of some kind. I pried into the crate to see what they were hiding inside. We'll never be able to pry into the safe—we'll need to drill through the lock!
2. To inquire closely and impertinently into something, especially that which is private, secret, or restricted. I wish you would stop prying into my business affairs. It's become very profitable for companies to advertise directly to people online by prying into their browsing habits.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

pry into something

to snoop into something; to get into someone else's business. Why are you prying into my affairs all the time? I wish you wouldn't pry into my personal life.
See also: pry
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • pry into (something)
  • pry (something) out of (someone or something)
  • pry from
  • pry off
  • pry (someone or something) off of (someone or something)
  • prying
  • pried
  • pries
  • pry up
  • prize (something) from
References in classic literature
A good wife should know better than to pry into affairs of her husband's with which she had no concern."
Law and the Lady
Even then, do we really care so much about the Royals that we have to probe and pry into the minute details of their private lives?
The Stirrer: None of our business
Forty years ago German moral theologian Bernard Haring wrote that "reverence and love forbid us to pry into the intimate life of our neighbor, or to divulge secrets revealed to us." Those words seem almost quaint in a world where Barbara Walters urges Monica Lewinsky to share details with 40 million viewers, or where so many of us rubberneck at the checkout stand to catch tabloid headlines about some final secret about Di or JFK Jr.
Keep your eyes to yourself
And the more scandalous and heavy-handed 199495 CIA effort in France, where undercover CIA operatives bungled an attempt to pry into French industrial and trade secrets (and were caught) is dismissed by Fialka.
War by Other Means