touch bottom
Reach the lowest point, as in During the recession the economists kept saying that we hadn't touched bottom yet. This metaphor for reaching the ground under a body of water has been used since the mid-1800s.
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
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