walk the floor

Verb

 * 1)  To pace back and forth restlessly, because of worry, excitement, distress, etc.
 * 2) * 1941,, "" (song):
 * You left me and you went away
 * I'm walking the floor over you
 * I can't sleep a wink that is true
 * I'm hoping and I'm praying as my heart breaks right in two
 * Walking the floor over you
 * 1) * 1998, Linda O. McMurry, To Keep the Waters Troubled, ISBN 0195088123, ch. 1 (excerpt at nytimes.com):
 * Ida . . . remembered the "anxious way my mother walked the floor at night when my father was out to a political meeting."
 * Walking the floor over you
 * 1) * 1998, Linda O. McMurry, To Keep the Waters Troubled, ISBN 0195088123, ch. 1 (excerpt at nytimes.com):
 * Ida . . . remembered the "anxious way my mother walked the floor at night when my father was out to a political meeting."