root of the trouble
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The Epstein-Barr virus is active in some, but not all, sufferers, and experts doubt it is the root of the trouble.
From Time Magazine Archive
Secondly and more important, when you add, "Goya was a moralist," for there you strike at the root of the trouble in the modern arts.
From Time Magazine Archive
The unrest upset the battered Egyptian economy�the root of the trouble �even more.
From Time Magazine Archive
Never before among the overabundant welter of discussion about postwar problems has the central root of the trouble been tapped so accurately.
From Time Magazine Archive
The real root of the trouble was that Mrs. Theodora's "right one" and Judith's "right one" were two different people.
From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904 by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)
