On The Roof Idiom

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On the roof idiom.

Keyed up to the roof. To get very angry. Like a cat on a hot tin roof. Cat hot on roof tin.

Under one the same roof. Roof over one s head a. In this sense the phrase is being used metaphorically. Snow on the roof.

To rise to a very high level. The boss hit the roof when he saw that we d already blown through the budget. 7 if a number of things or people are under one roof or under the same roof they are in the same building. The roof falls in.

The roof falls in. Like a cat on hot bricks. Raise lift the roof phrase v inflects he raised the roof at the conference when he sang his own version of the socialist anthem the red flag. Roof over one s head.

Cat on a hot tin roof a southernism that meant someone who was on edge or nervous. Live under the same roof. Go through the roof meaning. This term alludes to climbing on a roof so as to be heard by more people.

The roof caves in. That which ye have spoken. My parents are going to hit the roof if they find out we had a party here. On the roof to be absolutely burst out your tree on the bevy.

An alternative definition for this idiom is to become extremely angry. A similar phrase using housetops appears in the new testament luke 12 3. Roof over one s head. The phrase survives as the title of tennessee williams s 1955 pulitzer prize winning drama.

To be mortal with drink. Roof over one s head a. To be out of control on the bevy. The roof caves in.

To rise to a very high level. Under the same roof. Raise the roof to. Under one roof under the same roof phrase phr after v v link phr.

Snow on the roof. To become extremely angry or upset. To have a skin full. To inhale alcohol at such a level that you cannot see.

Under one the same roof. People often use this idiom to describe prices that shoot up quickly or stocks. If something actually were to go through the roof of a house it would have risen very high and fast and unexpectedly as well.