on the floor—
1. in a movie or TV studio:
- I’ll make a shooting script…. It’ll be something you can go on the floor with.
2. (of a film) being shot; in production:
- At Elstree, only one film, the Guinea Pig, is on the floor.
3. (Parliament) in the part where the members sit:
- Their job is to contribute to policymaking through debate on the floor.
on the shop floor—in the part of a factory concerned with productive as opposed to administrative work:
- The worker on the shop floor does not identify himself with the goals of the manager.