through the floor in English

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          "word": "through the roof"
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          "ref": "2009, Jerry Oppenheimer, Toy Monster: The Big, Bad World of Mattel, page 69:",
          "text": "“I was being paid in stock options, not salary increases, and my stock went through the floor,” she says.",
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        "Having fallen to a very low level or amount."
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        "(figurative) Having fallen to a very low level or amount."
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  "word": "through the floor"
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        "(figurative) Having fallen to a very low level or amount."
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  "word": "through the floor"
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"through the floor" meaning in English

Prepositional phrase