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knock the bottom out of

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Also, knock the props out from under . Render invalid, undermine. For example, The discovery of another planet that might support life knocks the bottom out of many theories , or Jane's skilled debating knocked the props out from under her opponent . The first expression dates from the late 1800s, the variant from the first half of the 1900s.

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