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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.

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

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

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

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

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