ground floor

[ground floor] {n.}

1. First floor of a house or building.

* /Mrs. Turner has an apartment on the ground floor./

2. {informal} The first or best chance, especially in a business.

* /That man got rich because he got in on the ground floor of the television business./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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