all-time low
Meaning
An "all-time low" is the lowest level something has ever reached in its recorded history. It signals an extreme drop in performance, price, mood, or quality compared to any previous point.
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Late night television is ready for someone like me... standards have gone to an all-time low.
Ashes to ashes, funk to funky We know Major Tom's a junkie Strung out in heaven's high Hitting an all-time low.
The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.
Today's stock market actually hates technology, as shown by all-time low price/earnings ratios for major public technology companies.
My all-time low is 62 at Bel-Air, but it was in match play, and I had two putts given to me from four feet. I'm playing only about once or twice a month. Full-time job. Full-time father. Full-time blonde.
Spending on programs such as national defense and funding the operating budgets of all federal agencies represent only 39 percent of our yearly budget, an all-time low.