On The Roof Idiom

7 if a number of things or people are under one roof or under the same roof they are in the same building.

On the roof idiom.

People often use this idiom to describe prices that shoot up quickly or stocks. Raise the roof to. The roof caves in. To get very angry.

An alternative definition for this idiom is to become extremely angry. The boss hit the roof when he saw that we d already blown through the budget. Skited without any worry of consequence. The roof caves in.

In this sense the phrase is being used metaphorically. Keyed up to the roof. Cat hot on roof tin. To become extremely angry or upset.

The phrase survives as the title of tennessee williams s 1955 pulitzer prize winning drama. This term alludes to climbing on a roof so as to be heard by more people. Roof over one s head. Raise the roof to.

To inhale alcohol at such a level that you cannot see. To rise to a very high level. To be out of control on the bevy. To have a skin full.

A similar phrase using housetops appears in the new testament luke 12 3. That which ye have spoken. The roof falls in. 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. Under one the same roof. Live under the same roof. Snow on the roof.

To rise to a very high level. On the roof to be absolutely burst out your tree on the bevy. Shall be proclaimed upon the housetops c. An all day bender.

The roof falls in. Under one roof under the same roof phrase phr after v v link phr. My parents are going to hit the roof if they find out we had a party here. Under the same roof.

Under one the same roof. Like a cat on hot bricks. Snow on the roof. Roof over one s head a.

If something actually were to go through the roof of a house it would have risen very high and fast and unexpectedly as well. To be mortal with drink. Cat on a hot tin roof a southernism that meant someone who was on edge or nervous.