Pace the floor In english explanation

The meaning, explanation, definition and origin of the idiom/phrase "pace the floor", English Idiom Dictionary ( also found in Vietnamese )

author Julia Huong calendar 2022-02-17 10:02

Meaning of Pace the floor

Synonyms:

walk the floor

Pace the floor verb phrase informal

If you pace the floor, you keep walking back and forth, especially because of being anxious or impatient.

He spent the night pacing the floor while waiting for his wife to give birth.

Please stop pacing the floor! You're making me nervous.

I began to pace the floor and think about what had happened to me recently.

Other phrases about:

dawdle along

To move in a slow and unconcerned manner.

Scarper Flow

Cockney rhyming slang for go

Make a Beeline for (someone, something)

To head to something or someone quickly and directly.

to make tracks

To quickly leave a place to go to somewhere else

(I've) got to split

I have to go now.

Grammar and Usage of Pace the floor

Verb Forms

  • paced the floor
  • paces the floor
  • pacing the floor
  • to pace the floor

The verb "pace" should be conjugated according to its tense.

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