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sink through the floor
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 | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
|---|
| Joan (2) | | joo-AHN (Catalan), zhoo-AHN (Catalan) | Catalan, Occitan |
| Lan | | - | Chinese, Vietnamese |
| Nazarius | | - | Late Roman |
| Gero | | GE-ro (German) | German, Ancient Germanic |
| Zuzanna | | zuw-ZAHN-nah (Polish) | Polish, Latvian (Rare) |
| Ashley | | ASH-lee | English |