Hit the roof go through the roof phrase v inflects.
Off the roof expression.
Falling off the roof.
People often use this idiom to describe prices that shoot up quickly or stocks.
This expression originated in the first half of the 1900s.
The dictionary of american slang doesn t have the expression at all.
Posted by sr on october 19 2004.
5 if you hit the roof or go through the roof you become very angry indeed and usually show your anger by shouting at someone.
Chapman writes in the dictionary of american slang third edition.
My anxiety level has been out the roof lately.
Definition of roof in the idioms dictionary.
Stairs he had become so entangled in the loose ends of the ropes that both he and his burden tumbled in a heap upon the roof and might have rolled off if tip had not.
Last edited on jun 04 2013.
Roof idioms by the free dictionary.
Of an emotion or feeling very high.
Definitions by the largest idiom dictionary.
If something actually were to go through the roof of a house it would have risen very high and fast and unexpectedly as well.
1960 1 to be sexually incapacitated.
It probably is related to a literal roof of a house.
What does roof expression mean.
Submitted by walter rader editor from sacramento ca usa on jun 04 2013.
Sergeant long will hit the roof when i tell him you ve gone off.