deep-down

• “Most people don't break the bolt down completely, there could be some deep-down crud under the ejector that is keeping it from moving properly.”

  Anybody ever have any problems with H&R rifles not ejecting spent cartridges.

• “It's more the deep-down letting go — being just fine when your child runs to your husband instead of you when she falls down on the playground, she says.”

  More parents share the workload when mom learns to let go

• “But while the surface seemed calm, deep-down currents spun into whirlpools and eddies, causing boats in marinas to drift and twirl, destroying docks and each other.”

  The Huffington Post: Luanne Rice: No Japan is an Island

• “The deep-down features, though, may keep users around as their needs grow.”

  Five Best Free System Restore Tools | Lifehacker Australia

• “It was a deep-down guttural laugh, the type reserved for a jolly, heavyset person, which was exactly what my partner had become.”

  Simon & Schuster: Times Two

• “So while part of Barb's nausea about these charges is based in her frustration that she's being punished for trying to live a holy life, another part is rooted in her deep-down fear that the accusations are a little bit true.”

  The Huffington Post: Mark Blankenship: Big Love Wife Watch!: Season 5, Ep. 8

• “Just try giving up irony," he says in "At Last," "that deep-down need to mean two things at once, to be in two places at once, not to be there for the catastrophe of a fixed meaning.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Sins of His Father

• “The reason progressives hate Summers is that deep-down, Summers economic theory is not very progressive.”

  Matthew Yglesias » The Summers Factor

• “England are now close to where Wales were a couple of seasons ago, developing the deep-down belief that is so important.”

  The Guardian: Six Nations 2011: Toby Flood plays key role in England win | Ben Kay

• “I may be a successful plastic surgeon, but I'm still, deep-down, a skinny, nerdy kid.”

  USA Today: Plastic surgeon can 'mesh artistry with medicine'

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