单词 | bottom drops out, the |
释义 | bottom drops out, theAlso, the bottom falls out. A collapse occurs, as in The bottom dropped out of the steel market, or When they lost the game, the bottom fell out of their hopes to make the playoffs. This term alludes to collapsing deeper than the very lowest point, or bottom. [First half of 1600s] Words nearby bottom drops out, theBirth of a Nation, The, The Birth of Venus, Black Iris, The, Bluest Eye, The, Bostonians, The, bottom drops out, the, “The Boy Who Cried ‘Wolf’”, the breaks, Bridge of San Luis Rey, The, The Bronx, Brothers Karamazov, The 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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