sink through the floor

Idioms  

1. 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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sink through the floor

Recalled Eleanor, "I wanted to sink through the floor in shame."

From Time Magazine Archive

Commander Fitz turned her attention to me, and I wished I could sink through the floor.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

"I—I feel ready to sink through the floor," she rejoined inconsequently.

From Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers by Various

I forced you to go, and then, after we got there, I seized every advantage, and abused your kindness till I wonder I didn't sink through the floor.

From Indian Summer by William Dean Howells

I was that dumbfounded for a bit, sir, that I was ready to sink through the floor, and all I could do was just gape at his hands.

From First Person Paramount by Ambrose Pratt