root of the trouble
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When it finally dawned on them that D.D.T. was the root of the trouble,* the worried patient relaxed and was able to go to work.
From Time Magazine Archive
But you only vaguely addressed the true root of the trouble: bad parenting.
From Time Magazine Archive
The root of the trouble is a difference of medical opinion.
From Time Magazine Archive
Intellectuals are apt to consider themselves somewhat more intelligent and sensitive than most people, and in Poe's case, the root of the trouble seems to have been that he was.
From Time Magazine Archive
Patients complain that they cannot do things; their friends say that they will not do them; and the physician sees that the root of the trouble is that they cannot will.
From Health Through Will Power by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
