| 单词 | take the floor |
| 释义 | take the floorSEE SYNONYMS FOR take the floor ON THESAURUS.COM Rise to speak formally to an assembled group, as in After that long introduction, the treasurer took the floor. This idiom uses floor in the sense of “right to speak,” in turn derived from its meaning as the part of the legislature from which members address the group. [c. 1800] Words nearby take the floortake the cake, take the edge off, take the fall, take the field, take the Fifth, take the floor, take the heat, take the initiative, take the law into one's hands, take the liberty of, take the load off 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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