"walk the floor" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Audio: En-au-walk the floor.ogg [Australia] Forms: walks the floor [present, singular, third-person], walking the floor [participle, present], walked the floor [participle, past], walked the floor [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} walk the floor (third-person singular simple present walks the floor, present participle walking the floor, simple past and past participle walked the floor)
  1. (idiomatic) To pace back and forth restlessly, because of worry, excitement, distress, etc. Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: en-walk_the_floor-en-verb-ZTMCtbif Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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