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
Carolyn	['kærəlin]
Racquel	rə-KEL	English
Christa	KRIS-tah (German), KRIS-tə (English)	German, Danish, English
Glenice	-	Welsh
Ilie	-	Romanian
'Avima'el	-	Biblical Hebrew