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sink through the floor
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Idioms and Phrases
Suffer extreme embarrassment, as in When she called our name on the list of those who owed dues, I sank through the floor . This hyperbolic term dates from the early 1900s.Advertisement
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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