sink through the floor

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.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
RÓŻA	RUW-zhah	Polish
Vijay	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam, Punjabi
Linda	LIN-də (English), LIN-dah (German), LEEN-dah (Italian, Finnish)	English, Dutch, German, Italian, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, French, Latvian, Finnish, Hu
Rohese	-	Medieval English
Dimitris	-	Greek
EstefanÍA	es-te-fah-NEE-ah	Spanish