through the floor
idiom
: to a very low level
The value of the stock has dropped/gone/fallen through the floor.
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Why not sip a drink and enjoy the airfield views through the floor to ceiling windwows that run the length of the lounge?
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Michele Robson, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
Shine a light through the cave to see dangling formations hanging from the ceiling and sprouting through the floor, and wind your way through an underground world largely unexplored.
—Amanda Ogle, Travel + Leisure, 25 Jan. 2024
Another resident emerged from a quick shower to find water seeping up through the floor.
—Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Jan. 2024
By then, brackish water had burst through her back fence, gushed under the back, side and front doors and through the floor grates and air vents, stopping just below the electrical outlets and Wiggins’s knees.
—John Muyskens, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2023
There’s human error too—sometimes students drop things through the floor, and that imperfection causes a way for the sound to reflect.
—Charlotte Hu, Popular Science, 7 Sep. 2023
Brace your core and push through the floor to lift hips, squeezing glutes at the top.
—Alyssa Sparacino, Men's Health, 24 Aug. 2023
Left untreated, a swarm of termites can chew through the floor joists and roof rafters of a house, weakening your home from the inside, Alexander explains.
—Brittany Anas, House Beautiful, 27 July 2023
Push your feet through the floor and pull the weight up, keeping the bar close to your body.
—Men's Health, 11 July 2023
Michele Robson, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
Shine a light through the cave to see dangling formations hanging from the ceiling and sprouting through the floor, and wind your way through an underground world largely unexplored.
—Amanda Ogle, Travel + Leisure, 25 Jan. 2024
Another resident emerged from a quick shower to find water seeping up through the floor.
—Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Jan. 2024
By then, brackish water had burst through her back fence, gushed under the back, side and front doors and through the floor grates and air vents, stopping just below the electrical outlets and Wiggins’s knees.
—John Muyskens, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2023
There’s human error too—sometimes students drop things through the floor, and that imperfection causes a way for the sound to reflect.
—Charlotte Hu, Popular Science, 7 Sep. 2023
Brace your core and push through the floor to lift hips, squeezing glutes at the top.
—Alyssa Sparacino, Men's Health, 24 Aug. 2023
Left untreated, a swarm of termites can chew through the floor joists and roof rafters of a house, weakening your home from the inside, Alexander explains.
—Brittany Anas, House Beautiful, 27 July 2023
Push your feet through the floor and pull the weight up, keeping the bar close to your body.
—Men's Health, 11 July 2023
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