slippery floor
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1.4
- noun
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- - Slippery floors...
Examples
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Where we, in our rented yard, have scrub pine and a slippery floor of needles, the Morris' trees are white birch and the grass is like a putting green.
Fiction book (1990) -
It was drafty, full of vast open spaces and slippery floors.
Fiction book (1997) -
Of course, he would need a very slippery floor to do that.
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These slippery floors prohibit a demonstration.
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They glided across the shiny, slippery floor.
Fiction book (1996) -
Be careful when walking in the kitchen; it has a slippery floor after the spill.
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He lost his balance and fell on the slippery floor when the milk spilled.
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The sign warned that the slippery floor could cause people to slip and fall.
Antonyms
How Slippery
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a floor surface that is likely to cause slipping' is directly and compositionally derived from combining 'slippery' (causing slipping) with 'floor' (the room's flat surface). This adjective + noun pattern is transparent and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the phrase meaning.
Etymology
Slippery floor shows a simple image: a floor that is slippery because it is wet or very smooth, so your feet can slide. That's why the phrase warns people that the surface can make them 'slip' or 'fall'.