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touch bottom

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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“Slowly but steadily, the male gently pushed the pup to shore until it could touch bottom,” the study said.

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

Dicey and James were tall enough to touch bottom, but the water was over the heads of the smaller children.

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

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

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