"bottom fall out" meaning in English

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      "form": "bottom falls out",
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bottom falling out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bottom fell out",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bottom fallen out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
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        "1": "bottom fall<,,fell,fallen> out",
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      },
      "expansion": "bottom fall out (third-person singular simple present bottom falls out, present participle bottom falling out, simple past bottom fell out, past participle bottom fallen out)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1664, Samuel Rutherford, Joshua redivivus, or, Mr. Rutherfoord's letters […] , [Rotterdam?], page 243:",
          "text": "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?",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1889, Horatio Alger Jr., Luke Walton, or The Chicago Newsboy, Philadelphia: John C. Winston Co., page 132:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1991 May 5, Stewart Ain, “Bottom Falls Out Of Summer Job Market”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:",
          "text": "But in the last four months, the bottom has fallen out of the job market, officials say.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, James F. Petras, Henry Veltmeyer, System in Crisis: The Dynamics of Free Market Capitalism, page 10:",
          "text": "The first major financial crisis occurred in Mexico, in December 1994, when the bottom fell out of the stock market […]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To fail; to collapse; to worsen; to enter a state of disarray."
      ],
      "id": "en-bottom_fall_out-en-verb-vYWlyhQl",
      "links": [
        [
          "fail",
          "fail"
        ],
        [
          "collapse",
          "collapse"
        ],
        [
          "worsen",
          "worsen"
        ],
        [
          "disarray",
          "disarray"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To fail; to collapse; to worsen; to enter a state of disarray."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bottom fall out"
}

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    {
      "form": "bottom falls out",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bottom falling out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bottom fell out",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bottom fallen out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1664, Samuel Rutherford, Joshua redivivus, or, Mr. Rutherfoord's letters […] , [Rotterdam?], page 243:",
          "text": "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?",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1889, Horatio Alger Jr., Luke Walton, or The Chicago Newsboy, Philadelphia: John C. Winston Co., page 132:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1991 May 5, Stewart Ain, “Bottom Falls Out Of Summer Job Market”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:",
          "text": "But in the last four months, the bottom has fallen out of the job market, officials say.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, James F. Petras, Henry Veltmeyer, System in Crisis: The Dynamics of Free Market Capitalism, page 10:",
          "text": "The first major financial crisis occurred in Mexico, in December 1994, when the bottom fell out of the stock market […]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To fail; to collapse; to worsen; to enter a state of disarray."
      ],
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        [
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        ],
        [
          "collapse",
          "collapse"
        ],
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          "worsen"
        ],
        [
          "disarray",
          "disarray"
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      ],
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        "(idiomatic) To fail; to collapse; to worsen; to enter a state of disarray."
      ],
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    }
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  "word": "bottom fall out"
}