have the goods

Example Sentences

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“We will know whether they have the goods if they can show them at a jury trial.”

From Salon • May 24, 2025

“We don’t have the goods that we were used to anymore,” Pozo said.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 23, 2024

The authors claim to have the goods on an “intermittent but repeated presence of multiple individual birds with field marks and behaviors consistent with those of Ivory-billed Woodpeckers” in Louisiana.

From Slate • May 27, 2023

And so we have a very careful process by which we investigate, we evaluate documents, we evaluate data, we consult experts, and then when we have the goods, we file a case.

From New York Times • Mar. 20, 2023

I’ll only say that I believe I have the goods on you, and I’ll warn you that anything you say now may be used against you.

From Andy at Yale Or, The Great Quadrangle Mystery by Stokes, Roy Eliot