No cliché in the English language is as misunderstood as “rock bottom.”
It is a historical phrase, not intended for present-tense use — applied retroactively to the lowest moment of a timeline that has already reached its conclusion. But when struggling through the doldrums of being alive, we may naively believe that, because things are so bad right now, they can only get better. We may think we have hit “rock bottom,” and that our situation must improve because there is no lower point imaginable. But we are wrong.
It can always get worse.
For example: The Milwaukee Bucks may be tempted to believe that, because their season
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