hit rock bottom

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hit rock bottom

to reach the lowest possible level or be in the worst possible situation. She used illegal drugs for eight years and quit before she hit rock bottom. The department has reached rock bottom, with employees being fired and supervisors facing criminal charges.

Usage notes: also used in the form be at rock bottom: Grain prices are now at rock bottom.

See also: bottom, hit, rock

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Having spent close to $1 million in the pursuit of an NFL franchise that they suspect has hit rock bottom, the Coliseum Commission began to pay closer attention Wednesday to its bottom line. COLISEUM EXPLORING OPTIONS DEALS WITH USC, STATE DISCUSSED by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) Relations between China and the Vatican hit rock bottom in 2000, when Pope John Paul II canonized four Chinese Roman Catholics and other foreign missionaries killed in past religious purges in China. China may restore ties with Vatican by Sison, Marites N. / Anglican Journal Mortgage companies benefited from the craze in home loan refinancing that peaked last summer when mortgage rates hit rock bottom. Economic impact of rate hike would spread across sector by Los Angeles Business Journal More results

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Having spent close to $1 million in the pursuit of an NFL franchise that they suspect has hit rock bottom, the Coliseum Commission began to pay closer attention Wednesday to its bottom line.

COLISEUM EXPLORING OPTIONS DEALS WITH USC, STATE DISCUSSED by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)

Relations between China and the Vatican hit rock bottom in 2000, when Pope John Paul II canonized four Chinese Roman Catholics and other foreign missionaries killed in past religious purges in China.

China may restore ties with Vatican by Sison, Marites N. / Anglican Journal

Mortgage companies benefited from the craze in home loan refinancing that peaked last summer when mortgage rates hit rock bottom.

Economic impact of rate hike would spread across sector by Los Angeles Business Journal

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hit like a ton of bricks
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hit rock bottom
hit stride
hit the books
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hit the brakes
hit the buffers
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hit the ceiling/roof

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