Off The Roof Expression

Of an emotion or feeling very high.

Off the roof expression.

I recall a rather pretentious friend read acquaintance of mine once telling her boyfriend that she d drunk an elegant sufficiency. This expression originated in the first half of the 1900s. Shoot a bunny posted by ward on october 19 2004. Last edited on jun 04 2013.

People often use this idiom to describe prices that shoot up quickly or stocks. 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. The dictionary of american slang doesn t have the expression at all. 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.

What does roof expression mean. My anxiety level has been out the roof lately. Definitions by the largest idiom dictionary. 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.

1960 1 to be sexually incapacitated. Hit the roof go through the roof phrase v inflects. It probably is related to a literal roof of a house. Definition of roof in the idioms dictionary.

Sergeant long will hit the roof when i tell him you ve gone off. If something actually were to go through the roof of a house it would have risen very high and fast and unexpectedly as well. Falling off the roof. Chapman writes in the dictionary of american slang third edition.