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Prepositional phrase
at the bottom of
- Covertly responsible for; being the real origin of.
- Synonym: behind
I should have known you'd be at the bottom of all this!
1844 January–December, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, “My Pedigree and Family.—Undergo the Influence of the Tender Passion.”, in “The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq. [The Luck of Barry Lyndon.]”, in Miscellanies: Prose and Verse, volume III, London: Bradbury and Evans, , published 1856, →OCLC, page 3:Since the days of Adam, there has been hardly a mischief done in this world but a woman has been at the bottom of it.
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