knock the bottom out of
Example Sentences
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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
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
That story should knock the bottom out of our friend's statement.
From Love of Brothers by Tynan, Katharine
I didn't know that anything could knock the bottom out of life so quickly.
From The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary by Warner, Anne
There is, in fact, no ground whatever for believing that 'evolution' need be the same thing as progress, and this is enough to knock the bottom out of 'evolutionary ethics'.
From Recent Developments in European Thought by Various
