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
Jari	YAH-ree	Finnish
Cyrille	see-REEL	French
Lucilla	-	Italian, Ancient Roman
Julio	HOO-lyo (Spanish), ZHOO-lyoo (Portuguese)	Spanish, Portuguese
Josefa	ho-SE-fah (Spanish)	Spanish, Portuguese, Czech
Plato	PLAY-to (English)	Ancient Greek (Latinized)