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
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
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.
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
