The Bottom Line I see this expression a lot. I guess it is overused as it makes me wonder what it really means and was intended for.
Originally, this is the final result or the final line of a financial audit. It refers to the actual last line - where profit or loss are stated. Audits are not much about written words, but numbers so there can be a final number. That means there is also a top line. That's the gross revenues or total sales.
From there, bottom line evolved into a figure of speech for the most important part of anything. If someone is talking a long time explaining something, you might ask "What's the bottom line?" That's asking them to get to the point to the main argument or central idea.
So when I read an article that finishes with the heading of The Bottom Line - it makes me wonder if they realize they are self-critizing that the article didn't really have a point to start with. But it does get your attention, so I guess that's why iit is overused.
There aren't bottom line jokes. Alternatively, you can think of the bottom line as your butt and you can read about getting a butt facial that is called the bottom line. That article was written 20 years ago and the "facial" cost $200 then. Bikini season coming soon, so bottom lines will be very visible.
This is one of those images that has been manipulated in Flexify. It is Dogwood trees in bloom.
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