deep dive

closely related to, and often indistinguishable from, drill down, this term indicates that a more rigorous or comprehensive examination should be conducted in a particular area, as in “We’ll need to do a deep dive on the debt structure before we can finalize the valuation”; depending on the depths in question it can indicate that someone is about to do a lot more work; variants include double down, and the less intensive double-click
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