[Ads-l] the basement below rock bottom

[Jonathan Lighter]

A chaeracter on "The Young and the Restless" threatens that a drug addict
will wind up in the "basement below rock-bottom !"

[1980 _News Journal_ (Mansfield, O.) (Jan. 13) 1-D: He put his money where
his mouth is, by opening a second disco in what was once the cavernous
basement below the Rock Bottom on West Third St.]

1999 _Sacramento Bee_ (Nov. 1) D-4:  Bengals discover the sub-basement
below rock bottom.

2017 _Lititz [Pa.] Record Express_ (Mar. 2) B-7: Often they hit rock
bottom, only to find there's a basement below rock bottom.

2025 Dylan Park-Pettiford _Roadside_ (Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books) [Google
Books w/o page no.]: This was certainly a new low point for me. And yet
somehow, I was still able to find the basement below rock bottom.

JL

-- 
"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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