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touch bottom

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Reach the lowest point, as in During the recession the economists kept saying that we hadn't touched bottom yet. This metaphor for reaching the ground under a body of water has been used since the mid-1800s.

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touch bottom

You have to touch bottom before you can kind of start to come back up again.

From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2022

“There you go,” he said, when I was able to touch bottom again.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 20, 2020

Anglers and rafters can float navigable waters in a boat, but they can’t touch bottom — no hopping out to wade, no dropping anchor to heed nature’s call.

From New York Times ● Aug. 22, 2012

But I couldn’t touch bottom, and by then I could barely move.

From Washington Post

Every now and then she lowered a tentative foot to touch bottom.

From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt

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