open the floor

[yzkssk]

What does the phrase 'open the floor' mean?

 

[bhaisahab]

What does the phrase 'open the floor' mean?

It doesn't mean anything to me, other than its literal meaning of opening up a hole of some sort in the floor.

 

[SoothingDave]

What does the phrase 'open the floor' mean?

Context?

 

[Barb_D]

Probably parliamentary procedure: I will now open the floor for debate.

But who knows. Absent context it could be other things.

 

[Rover_KE]

Welcome to the forums, yzkssk.:-D

Please give us some context. Where did you encounter this expression? Who wrote it? What is the background to it?

Rover