scraping How do you understand the following sentence? What does "scraping" mean here? Thanks! "The world is scraping bottom in the deepest economic slump in a half-century."

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Ginger

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If you think of a boat, when the boat is in bad condition or isn't being driven property it will scrape the bottom of the sea. I.e touch the ground, and drag along the bottom, the boat gets scratched or scraped. So the world is being compared to this....

I think it means "struggling in "

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