take the floor

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]

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Instead, an onslaught of injuries prevented those five from taking the floor together at all.

She will get another chance to qualify for the all-around competition at nationals when she takes the floor at the the U.S.

Bueckers — who is returning for one more season at UConn — figures to be the main attraction when the Huskies take the floor in the fall.

A perfect season was not talked about among the team when the season began, Paopao said, only a mindset to win each time players took the floor.

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