If something actually were to go through the roof of a house it would have risen very high and fast and unexpectedly as well.
Off the roof expression.
1960 1 to be sexually incapacitated.
What does roof expression mean.
Last edited on jun 04 2013.
Chapman writes in the dictionary of american slang third edition.
Hit the roof go through the roof phrase v inflects.
Fall off the roof v phr by 1930s to menstruate esp to begin a menstrual period probably a fanciful way to explain bleeding fall off the roof to phr.
Submitted by walter rader editor from sacramento ca usa on jun 04 2013.
Falling off the roof.
Sergeant long will hit the roof when i tell him you ve gone off.
This expression originated in the first half of the 1900s.
The dictionary of american slang doesn t have the expression at all.
Of an emotion or feeling very high.
Definition of roof in the idioms dictionary.
My anxiety level has been out the roof lately.
It probably is related to a literal roof of a house.
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.
I recall a rather pretentious friend read acquaintance of mine once telling her boyfriend that she d drunk an elegant sufficiency.
Posted by sr on october 19 2004.
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.
Definitions by the largest idiom dictionary.