bottom falls out
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.42 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Dear Brother, I cannot tell what is become of my labours among that people: If all that my Lord builded by me be caſten down, & the bottom fallen out of the profeſſion of that parish, […] how can I bear it?"
- "With the ten thousand dollars, I hired an office, printed circulars, distributed glowing accounts of imaginary wealth, etc. It cost considerable^([sic]) for advertising, but I sold seventy thousand shares, and when I had gathered in the money I let the bottom fall out."
- "But in the last four months, the bottom has fallen out of the job market, officials say."
- "The first major financial crisis occurred in Mexico, in December 1994, when the bottom fell out of the stock market […]"
- "To start with, it rained every day as if the bottom would fall out. When morning came the sky would be clear, but around noon it would start raining and rain until midnight."
- "[…] As it started to rain, we stopped and put on raincoats, before the bottom fell out, as is often the case in this locality."