have the goods

Example Sentences

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“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

Did the Justice Department have the goods on Fortas?

From Salon • Apr. 7, 2022

You have the goods, be satisfied with that.

From Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag by Freytag, Gustav