| 单词 | the bottom falls out of |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe bottom falls (also drops) out of P6. the bottom falls (also drops) out of: there is a collapse of.Cf. to knock the bottom out of at knock v. 6b.Now esp. with reference to the market for a commodity. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > unsuccessful [phrase] > failure of an action or design (all) the fat is in the fire1546 the bottom falls out of1637 1637 S. Rutherford Let. 9 Sept. in Joshua Redivivus (1664) 144 The bottom hath fallen out of both their wit & conscience at once. a1754 E. Erskine Coll. Serm. (1755) 71 The bottom falls out of the devil's kingdom. 1868 14th Ann. Rep. Iowa State Agric. Soc. 1867 64 The bottom has at length dropped out of this humbug. 1872 ‘M. Twain’ Roughing It lviii. 420 Gould and Curry soared to six thousand three hundred dollars a foot! And then—all of a sudden, out went the bottom and everything..went to ruin and destruction! 1926 E. M. Dell Black Knight i. x ‘I try to take things as they come.’.. ‘And when the bottom falls out of everything—what do you do then?’ 1957 M. Banton West Afr. City vi. 103 In the 1930s the bottom fell out of the market in ginger and coffee. 2002 W. Woodruff Road to Nab End (2003) 41 In good times, before the bottom dropped out of Lancashire textiles in the early 1920's, that is where our money went. < as lemmas |
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