sink through the floor
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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.
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sinking fund, sinking spell, sinkless, sink one's teeth into, sink or swim, sink through the floor, sinless, sinner, Sinn Fein, sinningia, sino-
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