tocar fondo

Spanish

Verb

tocar fondo (first-person singular present toco fondo, first-person singular preterite toqué fondo, past participle tocado fondo)

1. to touch the bottom (of the sea, lake etc.)
2. (idiomatic) to hit rock bottom

Further reading

• “tocar fondo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10