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
Get the basic bottom linemug. Participation in tender is in our line of business.
May I know what line of business you handle?
If I may correct you, we don't handle this line of business, actually.
In my line of business you can't afford to carry large stocks of goods which may soon be out of date.
May I know what line of business you handle?
If I may correct you, we don't handle this line of business, actually.
In my line of business you can't afford to carry large stocks of goods which may soon be out of date.
by qiaogz August 16, 2009
Get the line of businessmug. When you get set up to let your guard down and get robbed, usually by a girl who fakes interest in you so that you stay in one spot and she can give your location to whoever wants to harm you.
Marc: I heard Bennett got lined by Alicia, they kicked down his door and ran his pockets!
Bennett: Alicia lined me, I can never trust a thot ever again.
Bennett: Alicia lined me, I can never trust a thot ever again.
by GoodCivilian June 12, 2025
Get the Linedmug. The hospital’s invisible line outside the main lobby doors where they wheel their patients to after they are discharged. Utterly nervous that the discharged patient will slip and fall before they exit the hospital, a collective sigh of relief by the hospital lawyers after the patient has been wheeled to the line of liability, steps out of the wheelchair, and walks away.
The hospital staff gingerly helped the discharged patient exit out of the wheelchair and take a step over the Line of Liability. The patient could have collapsed after that and crawled to their car, but it wouldn’t matter; they had crossed the Line of Liability.
by Grant Rampus March 8, 2022
Get the Line of Liabilitymug. by waffelix May 4, 2023
Get the the kiwi linemug. 
(n) the actual beginning of legitimacy, which the status quo prefers to bypass, often while pretending to have its basis established in truth regardless
That reference from the Bible where the Savior in it said you can't be His follower unless you give up all you have is the real deal starting line that the whole religion these days just has no regard for.
I know. Nobody wants to run that race legitimately like they did back in the day, not calling what had been theirs their own any longer, but instead just sharing their heart, soul, and everything else together as one between them all.
I know. Nobody wants to run that race legitimately like they did back in the day, not calling what had been theirs their own any longer, but instead just sharing their heart, soul, and everything else together as one between them all.
by pardonnez-moi de trébucher January 16, 2023
Get the real deal starting linemug.