be onto
Intermediate (B1)informal
To know that something important is there, or to have figured out what someone is really up to.
"The scientists believe they're onto a new treatment that could change everything."
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You might be onto something.
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He may be onto us.
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your senses might be onto something.
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and therefore that they must be onto something.
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then you could be onto something really good, John.