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floor 1. noun used as a figurative or notional description of the place where out-of-work workers wait for a job referral at a union hiring hall US, 1992.► on the floorpoor. Rhyming slang; also serves as a metaphor UK, 1960.► take off the floorto remove a prostitute from service in a brothel US, 1978 2. verb 1 to confound, to puzzle UK, 1830. 2 to push a vehicle's accelerator to the floorboard US, 1953
idiomfloorfloor it AmEAmEspoken to suddenly make a car go very fast:Just put it in really low gear and floor it - let's see what happens.One of the gunmen grabbed the door handle, but the driver got rid of him by flooring it.wipe the floor with sbto defeat someone completely or easily in a competition or argument:We had a couple of chances to score, but in the end they wiped the floor with us, 4-0.One MP challenged the Government's policy, but the Health Minister wiped the floor with him.
*floorFig. the exclusive right to address the audience. (*Typically: get ~; have ~; hold ~; grant someone~.) When I get the floor, I'll make a short speech. The last time you had the floor, you talked for an hour. floor someoneto surprise and astound someone. His brashness simply floored me! See:- 4-on-the-floor
- be in on the ground floor
- be, come, get, etc. in on the ground floor
- clean the floor (up) with (one)
- clean the floor up with
- come in on the ground floor
- crash to the floor
- cross the floor
- elevator doesn't go to the top floor, the
- fall through the floor
- floor
- floor it
- floored
- from the floor
- get in on the ground floor
- get in on the ground floor, to
- ground floor, get in on the
- have the floor
- hold the floor
- in on the ground floor
- mop the floor up with
- mop the floor up with (one)
- mop the floor up with someone
- mop the floor with (someone)
- mop up the floor with
- mop up the floor with (one)
- on the cutting room floor
- on the factory floor
- pace the floor
- pull up a floor
- put (one's) foot to the floor
- rolling on the floor laughing
- scrape (someone or something) up off (something)
- sink through the floor
- sink through the floor, to
- so clean (that) (one) could eat off the floor(s)
- so clean you could eat off the floor
- take the floor
- this is my floor
- through the floor
- walk the floor
- wipe the floor up with
- wipe the floor up with (one)
- wipe the floor up with someone
- wipe the floor with
- wipe the floor with (someone)
- wipe the floor with somebody
- wipe the floor with someone
- you could eat off the floor(s)
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