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basic bottom line

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.
"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."
by Ondalin July 16, 2025
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Basic

A term usually describing fashion; sometimes used as an insult. Examples include, Starbucks, crop-tops, uggs, leggings, washed and/or ripped jeans, leggings, side-on vans, etc.
That crop-top is super basic throw it away.
Your closet looks so basic.
by TheModernWorld July 3, 2019
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basic white girl

Basic girl: I'm not like the other girls.
Any girl: Girl, ya are. Basic white girl.
by suck_my_d33 January 12, 2025
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Basic

Somebody who is ordinary. If you are basic, you usually like something if it is popular and everybody else likes it.
by knp04 July 28, 2017
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Tyler basic

Daddy. 8———-D
by Bo Hallas January 18, 2024
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Basic

Hannah has become a basic bitch.
by allsique April 8, 2019
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Basic Romanian Girl

Also known as a "bombardiera" she is the average stereotypical Romanian girl. She may act like a normal basic girl, but she has the unique Romanian traits of the same type of girl. She usually hangs out with her male friends, she may wear fake designer clothes. She is a pick me girl. She always posts surveys on her insta story. She vapes and she has a bad taste in music or she has the same music preferences as her bf if she has one. She is very judgemental with lgbtq+ people, people of color or any other human being who is not in her friend group. She usually gossips with her friends, she thinks that streamers are super-cool even if she watches them so people think she is different. She does everything she can to get all the attention from all the boys. She pretends that she loves sports just for clout. She sometimes fakes depression or other mental illnesses
LOOK AT Maria, she is listening to "manele" again and she cracks sunflower seeds all over this place. She is a Basic Romanian Girl
by ailad August 15, 2021
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