knock the bottom out of
Example Sentences
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Ben Flesh may be corruptible, and Author Elkin's spendthrift talent some times threatens to knock the bottom out of the word market entirely.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had secured an injunction to restrain the Board from suspending his company on the grounds that suspension would force a reckless liquidation of the company's holdings, knock the bottom out of the grain market.
From Time Magazine Archive
If the newspapers got wise and printed things, the stock of the club would slump still more, which would help the dirty bunch that’s trying to knock the bottom out of it.”
From Lefty Locke Pitcher-Manager by Standish, Burt L.
It seemed to knock the bottom out of the whole match.
From The Head of Kay's by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
It seemed to knock the bottom out of his whole theory that he who does right is always safe.
From Tom Slade with the Colors by Clarity, Thomas
