On The Roof Idiom

Roof over one s head.

On the roof idiom.

Skited without any worry of consequence. Under one the same roof. Under one roof under the same roof phrase phr after v v link phr. To rise to a very high level.

The boss hit the roof when he saw that we d already blown through the budget. The roof caves in. Roof over one s head. An all day bender.

The roof falls in. On the roof to be absolutely burst out your tree on the bevy. My parents are going to hit the roof if they find out we had a party here. The phrase survives as the title of tennessee williams s 1955 pulitzer prize winning drama.

If something actually were to go through the roof of a house it would have risen very high and fast and unexpectedly as well. Snow on the roof. To be mortal with drink. Live under the same roof.

Snow on the roof. Roof over one s head a. The roof falls in. Under one the same roof.

Raise the roof to. Like a cat on hot bricks. Shall be proclaimed upon the housetops c. 7 if a number of things or people are under one roof or under the same roof they are in the same building.

A similar phrase using housetops appears in the new testament luke 12 3. To get very angry. Go through the roof meaning. This term alludes to climbing on a roof so as to be heard by more people.

In this sense the phrase is being used metaphorically. Cat hot on roof tin. The roof caves in. Raise the roof to.

People often use this idiom to describe prices that shoot up quickly or stocks. To inhale alcohol at such a level that you cannot see. To become extremely angry or upset. Roof over one s head a.

Keyed up to the roof. 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. Under the same roof. Like a cat on a hot tin roof.

To rise to a very high level. To have a skin full. That which ye have spoken.