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deep down
Idioms and Phrases
At bottom, basically. For example, Deep down she was a rebel , or Although he would never admit it, deep down he was very fond of her . [c. 1900]Example Sentences
"I'm sure deep down they are nice people, hopefully they just made a mistake and are going to apologise for it."
But, deep down, everybody wants to be liked, and the 35-year-old is no different.
“I don’t think they have had a genuine effort in trying to revive the language. … I think deep down, they don’t believe it has any value for them,” Bap explains.
"No-one believed that he would try to kill me. I knew deep down he was going to kill me," she said.
Like, you sound super white,’ and deep down I'm like, oh, ‘Why, I can't be myself even in my job,’ you know?”
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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