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
Doesn't it occur to you that my fading away to New York at the critical moment would rather knock the bottom out of the scheme?
From Captivating Mary Carstairs by Raymond Moreau Crosby
"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
Stand by, now, and see how a genuine sailor can knock the bottom out of all the floating brass, iron, or snail-shell pots that ever went to sea.
From Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies by Henry Christopher McCook
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