floor one could eat off

noun

An extremely clean floor.

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nounfloor one could eat off (plural floors one could eat off)

plural floors one could eat off

  1. idiomaticAn extremely clean floor.

    The soot-pervaded smoke from it had turned the walls and ceiling completely black so we had a black-walled kitchen, but with a floor you could eat off.

    2022, Sharon Maas, The Girl from Lamaha Street
    1 more example

    Cinnamon went on a tear to get the house ready […] As it stands she has an empty room with a floor you could eat off and a mess of aches and pains, but she's determined to finish up today.

    2023, Christine Pride, Jo Piazza, You Were Always Mine, page 195
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