rock bottom

Ties between Beijing and the Conservative government hit rock bottom before the party was voted out of office last year.

Once he joined the Dodgers this year, Sasaki hit rock bottom.

The singer had a long history of addiction: “I’d hit rock bottom a few times in my life, but always from booze and drugs,” he writes.

“This here is rock bottom,” he writes of his time in the tunnels.

"Even with a powerful government like the Chinese one, it is hard to arrest pessimist sentiments when the economy looks bleak, the job market is cruelly competitive, and birth rate hits rock bottom."