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touch bottom
Idioms and Phrases
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.Example Sentences
But the poles were too short now to touch bottom, and there were no ice cakes about to offer the necessary resistance.
Miss Athene's leavin' home has made it pretty steep, but this'll touch bottom—this will.
The boat went down into such deep water that the setting poles did not touch bottom.
"But I'm just going to touch bottom," the tall digger expostulated.
He could not touch bottom there, or even at the base of the Causeway.
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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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