Someone talking endless with useless chatter to deliver bad news but you want them to bottom-line-you butt they continue their useless talk instead of "bottom line me".
by sunnymunny July 05, 2010
Carefully monitoring the "level" of your pants' waistband so as not to reveal your "plumber's crack' when working in public.
"Watching the bottom line" can also refer to a bystander's lengthy observation of someone who is unknowingly "mooning the world" while engrossed in the task he's performing. Sometimes you can gain a bit of extra folding-money if you make a bet with anyone else who's with you about how long it'll be before the clueless butt-exposer either realizes his faux pas or someone else yells at him to pull his pants up.
by QuacksO June 21, 2019
expression
Meaning:
The simplest, most important truth in any situation — what it all really comes down to before anything else. It’s the raw core, the emotional or logical essence that stands before the usual bottom line, often hidden beneath layers of explanation, justification, or complexity.
Extra:
The basic bottom line comes before the bottom line — it's what everything else is built on.
Origin:
Popularized by Catalin Andrei Rajka, a Romanian creative and thinker known for concise expressions of complex thoughts.
Meaning:
The simplest, most important truth in any situation — what it all really comes down to before anything else. It’s the raw core, the emotional or logical essence that stands before the usual bottom line, often hidden beneath layers of explanation, justification, or complexity.
Extra:
The basic bottom line comes before the bottom line — it's what everything else is built on.
Origin:
Popularized by Catalin Andrei Rajka, a Romanian creative and thinker known for concise expressions of complex thoughts.
"The basic bottom line? I started this because I needed to feel something again — all the rest came later."
"Before anything got complicated, the basic bottom line was just this: I missed her."
"Forget the strategy, the basic bottom line is — he couldn’t let go."
"Before anything got complicated, the basic bottom line was just this: I missed her."
"Forget the strategy, the basic bottom line is — he couldn’t let go."
by Ondalin July 16, 2025
(verb) To make happen. Indicates commitment to completing a task or subtask, especially in community organizing work.
This is used to help ensure follow-through for important work by ensuring that someone will take on the steps needed to get the thing done.
This is used to help ensure follow-through for important work by ensuring that someone will take on the steps needed to get the thing done.
by bee783 October 10, 2021
Depending on da general locale, how good-looking your behind is, whether you're male or female, da general conservativeness of da local culture, how many singles there are in da populace, etc., da "vertical" bottom line experienced in a particular area can vary wildly.
by QuacksO February 21, 2023