come down to bed-rock

come down to bed-rock
разг.
(come (или get) down to (reach) bed-rock (или bedrock))
1) добраться, докопаться до сути (дела), до истины [первонач. жарг.; bed-rock геол. коренная, подстилающая порода]

‘well,’ he said, ‘we're like any other people when it comes down to bedrock.’ (J. Galsworthy, ‘The Silver Spoon’, part I, ch. V) — - Ну что же, - сказал он, - мы такие же люди, как и все остальные, если покопаться глубже.

2) амер. исчерпать свои ресурсы, оказаться на мели

By the end of their holiday they had got down to bed-rock. They had not got a dime. — К концу каникул они оказались на мели. У них не было и десяти центов.


Большой англо-русский фразеологический словарь. - М.: «Русский язык-Медиа».. 2006.

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