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knock the bottom out of



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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

It would be easy enough to knock the bottom out of the scheme by bringing the police into it; her nervousness at the mention of them had shown that plainly.

From The Man Without a Memory by Marchmont, Arthur W. (Arthur Williams)

Didn't that rather knock the bottom out of this dreadful idea?

From Juggernaut by Campbell, Alice

Stand by, now, and see how a genuine sailor can knock the bottom out of all the floating brass, iron, or snail-shell pots that ever went to sea.

From Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies by McCook, Henry Christopher




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