knock the bottom out of
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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
Some cleverer fellow one day will knock the bottom out of it, and see his way to explain what to a botanist without a theory to support must be very great difficulties.
From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 by Darwin, Francis, Sir
The answer might well be yes—for these natural predispositions will knock the bottom out of much speciously logical reasoning about people.
From The Great Miss Driver by Hope, Anthony
They would then knock the bottom out of the Home Rule agitation.
From Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule by Buckley, Robert John
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