Idiom idiom
drill down
Meaning
To examine information at another level or in greater detail; especially in a database, to navigate to a more detailed level or record.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Let's drill down into the sales numbers.”
“The manager asked her team to drill down and find out why profits had dropped.”
“Rather than skimming the surface of the data, the analyst chose to drill down through several layers of records until she uncovered the source of the discrepancy.”
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Last updated August 10, 2026