be at the bottom of

After receiving the gong, Moyes said in an interview with BBC Sport he did not want to be "at the bottom of the league and fighting relegation".

"I don't want to be at the bottom of the league and fighting relegation which I have had a few times, so we will see how things go."

“This is a result of malign neglect from public officials, electeds, different agencies of the city, the mayor. This is why Watts continues to be at the bottom of the barrel and continues to experience abject poverty.”

I could tell he had not considered the possibility that all the fatted ships he had traveled so far to plunder might be at the bottom of the sea by the time he got there.

Perhaps a rotting oil derrick, it could well be at the bottom of a poisoned sea.