- tocar fondo
- v.1 to hit rock bottom, to bottom out, to touch bottom.2 to run aground, to bog, to strand.* * *tocar fondo(barco) to touch bottom 2 figurado to reach rock bottom* * *to reach o hit rock bottom* * *(v.) = hit + rock-bottom, reach + rock-bottom, bottom out, touch + rock bottom, strike + bottomEx. 'The Gathering Storm' is a beautifully composed and photographed production concentrating on the years in the 1930s when Churchill's career hit rock-bottom.Ex. In 1998, film production levels reached rock-bottom.Ex. The dramatic decrease in the readability of chemistry papers in the past 100 years now appears to have bottomed out.Ex. This fell fast over the years until it touched rock bottom at minus four percent in 2004.Ex. However this was to no avail and the ship struck bottom.* * *(v.) = hit + rock-bottom, reach + rock-bottom, bottom out, touch + rock bottom, strike + bottom
Ex: 'The Gathering Storm' is a beautifully composed and photographed production concentrating on the years in the 1930s when Churchill's career hit rock-bottom.
Ex: In 1998, film production levels reached rock-bottom.Ex: The dramatic decrease in the readability of chemistry papers in the past 100 years now appears to have bottomed out.Ex: This fell fast over the years until it touched rock bottom at minus four percent in 2004.Ex: However this was to no avail and the ship struck bottom.
Spanish-English dictionary. 2013.