crash to the floor

crash to the floor

To fall to the floor, usually noisily. The picture frame fell off the wall and crashed to the floor.
See also: crash, floor
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

crash to the floor

to fall onto the floor and make a crashing sound. The tray of dishes crashed to the floor. Everything crashed to the floor and was broken.
See also: crash, floor
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • the floor is yours
  • fall through the floor
  • wipe the floor with
  • wipe the floor with (someone)
  • wipe the floor with somebody
  • wipe the floor with someone
  • below stairs
  • droppings
  • break (something) to pieces
  • break to pieces
References in classic literature
I WAS UNCONSCIOUS LITTLE MORE THAN AN INSTANT, for as I lunged forward from the crossbeam to which I had been clinging, and fell with a crash to the floor of the cabin, the shock brought me to myself.
At the Earths Core
Over the vase went, bless your heart, crash to the floor. Stop a bit!
Law and the Lady
When Miss Natter jumps on her desk to avoid Bob the Iguana, test tubes crash to the floor and cause a fire.
Smith, Justine and Elsom, Clare: Zak Zoo and the School Hullabaloo
The forward has scored 11 goals this season but Hodgson expects to have to do without his services for a while after a challenge with Potters captain Abdoulaye Faye early in the second half saw the player crash to the floor.
Hodgson awaiting verdict on Zamora's 'bad injury'
As he handed it over to the Speaker, the top of the mace fell off with a reverberating crash to the floor. The gasp of horror from the assembled company, in a still highly superstitious society, could have been heard back in Westminster and we all know the subsequent troubled democracy of that country.
Letters Sign of relief after Mace's safe arrival
It seems about to crash to the floor yet remains perfectly poised, demonstrating an intoxicating tension that pervades Selzer's entire enterprise.
Shane Aslan Selzer: Lisa Dent Gallery
He reached for a glass but knocked it over, causing the rest to crash to the floor.
Dizzy Gazza bubbles over
TV presenter Ben Douglas was ambling along the platform when Paul (below), who plays womanising PC Des Taviner in the ITV1 show, came rushing past from behind sending him flying and causing his CD Walkman to crash to the floor.
24/7: USHER CHEEK
He claimed they threw the boy in the air seven times and let him crash to the floor, then "kicked him like a ball".
WINNIE 'USED WHIP ON MURDERED BOY'
Bottles crash to the floor and glasses "dance" along the bar at Brannigans in Manchester.
Bar haunted by a teetotal spirit