a phrase used to indicate one’s suspicion that a particular analysis or element of logic is faulty and needs to be revised or discarded entirely, generally used as a conciliatory preface that nevertheless cannot avoid ominous undertones, as in “I think we should dig in a little on your chart there and check if those numbers are really accurate”; similar to double click, deep dive, drill down, pressure test, and unpack, indicating the diversity of ways in which jargon users attempt to elide the essential nature of their request, which boils down to “do more work”
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