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>>peel away the layers<<
"Peeling the onion" works, though you might have to add "layer by layer." This is said, among other things, of studying Aritstotle's "Metaphysics," where there's only peel and no substance.
Note to FS: I think even descriptivists analyse the grammar of sentences.
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