detective work

The act of investigating something. It can be applied to both serious and trivial situations. Nice detective work—I had a feeling Caitlin broke the vase, and now I know for sure. I'm doing my own detective work now, going through security footage to try to see who stole the car.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Eladio	-	Spanish
Petronella	pe-tro-NE-lah (German)	Dutch, German, Swedish
Annas	AN-əs (English)	Biblical, Biblical Latin
'Abbas	-	Arabic, Persian
Davinia	-	English (Rare)
Shemu'el	-	Biblical Hebrew