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Gravity's practical joke: a hole so deep it forgets to have a floor.
means A hole, void, or need so deep that it seems to have no bottom — used literally for chasms and figuratively for anything that consumes without ever being satisfied (bottomless appetite, bottomless debt, bottomless grief).
from The phrase is old and biblical in flavor — 'bottomless pit' appears in the Book of Revelation (translated from the Greek 'abyssos,' meaning literally 'without depth,' the root of our word 'abyss') describing a prison for demonic forces, a hole with no floor to contain evil. English translators rendered it plainly as 'bottomless pit,' and the phrase escaped scripture to describe any void that swallows without filling — debts, stomachs, sorrows, budgets.
- origin
- biblical term, abyss where demons get locked up
- physics problem
- true bottomless pit violates conservation of mass
- common usage
- describes teenagers near a refrigerator
- closest real thing
- mariana trench, a mere 36,000 feet deep