through the floor
English edit
Prepositional phrase edit
- (figurative) Having fallen to a very low level or amount.
- Antonyms: through the roof, through the ceiling
- 2009, Jerry Oppenheimer, Toy Monster: The Big, Bad World of Mattel, page 69:
- “I was being paid in stock options, not salary increases, and my stock went through the floor,” she says.