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through the floor

through the floor prepositional phrase: having fallen to a very low level or amount.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (figuratively) Having fallen to a very low level or amount.
    • “I was being paid in stock options, not salary increases, and my stock went through the floor,” she says.2009, Jerry Oppenheimer, Toy Monster: The Big, Bad World of Mattel, page 69

Antonyms of through the floor

Questions about through the floor

What does through the floor mean?
Through the floor means having fallen to a very low level or amount.
What part of speech is through the floor?
Through the floor is a prepositional phrase.

Words near through the floor in the dictionary

  1. through stations
  2. through stone
  3. through stones
  4. through street
  5. through the ceiling
  6. through the floor
  7. through the gate
  8. through the hawsehole
  9. through the looking glass
  10. through the looking-glass
  11. through the mill

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