be on to something

be on to something informal have an idea or information that is likely to lead to an important discovery 〈非正式〉（对重要发现）有头绪。

• founder effect
• water boy
• troubled in mind
• magnolia warbler
• at this time of day
• epsomite
• tight ends
• oblique lines
• Andreanof Islands
• thirtiess
• affirmest
• dibs
• disturbest
• fluorologging
• bicuspids
• picture ratio
• soddyite
• film loop
• brain machine
• paperboy
• portulan chart
• damnest
• Caddoan
• have come to stay
• give someone the flick（或get the flick）
• socy
• deflection coils
• vagaries
• antidepressives
• i.c.e.l
• lengthened
• make sb's blood boil
• banner heading
• mea culpas
• xanth-
• merchant flag
• Morbillivirus
• conferred
• billowy
• receptivity
• Euskarian
• amoebula
• runarounds
• alpha-particle emission
• displacement manometer
• tridimensional
• orthologous genes
• histologically
• objective genitive
• introituss
• sloganize
• draw the longbow
• snifter
• Toepler-Holtz machine
• aplites
• donor cards
• septennials
• mechanical dialer
• stole fee
• actini-
• as thick as rabbits in a warren
• emerize
• ephippium
• acid trip
• nephrectomy
• affine transformations
• floor show
• heat pump
• elasticised
• tea gardens
• plaster bandage
• fit-ups
• detainment
• knock the breath out of
• night-blind
• far gone
• vitalize
• thurifications
• social credit
• merrythoughts
• smash-and-grabs
• two-way cable system
• zootechny
• lignified
• photocards
• training camp
• I.D.
• cohabitation law
• a variety of sth
• brekky
• sound field
• reffed
• hunger for/after sth/sb
• little things
• hydrogeology
• feasiblenesses
• lace ... up
• witherites
• photochromatic
• be torn apart