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floor one could eat off en · NOUN
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(idiomatic) An 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: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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