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Touch Bottom

(To). To know the worst. A sea-phrase.

“It is much better for the ministry to touch bottom at once and know the whole truth, than to remain any longer in suspense.” —Newspaper paragraph, January, 1886.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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