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
Didn't that rather knock the bottom out of this dreadful idea?
From Juggernaut by Campbell, Alice
It seemed to knock the bottom out of the whole match.
From The Head of Kay's by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
Is somebody trying to knock the bottom out of his baseball holdings in order to get control of the club?
From Lefty Locke Pitcher-Manager by Standish, Burt L.
