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hit bottom



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Idioms and Phrases

Also, touch bottom . Reach the worst or lowest point. For example, When he lost his job again they knew they had hit bottom , or When wheat prices touch bottom, the farmers will be up in arms . [Second half of 1800s]

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Example Sentences

It is another to fall and to keep falling, again and again, even after you were supposed to have hit bottom.

We buy shares when the market has crested, and sell when the market has hit bottom.

Now all we have to do is hope that they pull out of the dive before we all hit bottom.

The economy hit bottom in the summer of 2009 and a recovery then began.

Evidence is mounting that the housing market finally hit bottom and is in the process of recovering.

While working our way inshore over the shoals we hit bottom several times and finally went aground.

Hit bottom hard at 64 feet, and proceeded along bottom at full speed.

The truth is I have hit bottom good and hard and it is only to-day that I have come to the surface.

And judging by the deep sadness in his soul, he knew he had hit bottom.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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