1 the most unhappy that someone has ever been in their life:
4 used to describe something that has reached its lowest level:
They formulate the position that they refute as the view that ' 'individuals are more fundamental than social structures, they are the rock-bottom of any explanation.
Of course, the truth, or truths, may not reside at rock-bottom levels in any empirically attainable or theoretically interpretative representation.
They identify a new class of banker-owners (armadores-banqueros), who quickly came to dominate the local shrimp fishery through the purchase of antiquated cooperative vessels at rock-bottom prices.
When wage-cutting reaches what may be called rock-bottom, other forms of economy just as relentless have been pursued and employed.
What he has missed are the rock-bottom facts of life as they affect the ordinary people.
That is, perhaps, the rock-bottom reason why we are unable to get this problem tackled.
The policy should be to fix the price at rock-bottom below which it is impossible to produce sheep except at a loss.
Indeed, with our football team at the bottom of the league, we are at rock-bottom.