knock the bottom out of
Example Sentences
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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
Any fool can knock the bottom out of this Home Defence business.
From If Winter Comes by A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth) Hutchinson
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 Sir Francis Darwin
"That does seem to knock the bottom out of my argument," said Quarles.
From The Master Detective Being Some Further Investigations of Christopher Quarles by Percy James Brebner
