hit rock bottom
Formshits rock bottom, hitting rock bottom, hit rock bottom
- 1To reach the lowest possible point in one's life, beyond which conditions cannot worsen.
Like a stone that has sunk to the floor of a lake and can drop no deeper.
His drinking grew worse for years until he hit rock bottom and checked into a clinic.
The team hit rock bottom after a tenth straight loss, with morale at its lowest.
Note
A slang idiom that usually marks a turning point: the fall is over, and whatever comes next can only be better. Only the verb inflects, and hit keeps the same form in the past and the past participle: he hit rock bottom last year; she has hit rock bottom. Reach rock bottom is a plainer variant with the same meaning.
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