floor one could eat off

English

Noun

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

  1. (idiomatic) An extremely clean floor.
    • 2022, Sharon Maas, The Girl from Lamaha Street:
      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.
    • 2023, Christine Pride, Jo Piazza, You Were Always Mine, page 195:
      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.

Usage notes
  • Also in related constructions such as "you could eat off that floor".
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