Off The Roof Expression

Chapman writes in the dictionary of american slang third edition.

Off the roof expression.

If something actually were to go through the roof of a house it would have risen very high and fast and unexpectedly as well. Hit the roof go through the roof phrase v inflects. Sergeant long will hit the roof when i tell him you ve gone off. The dictionary of american slang doesn t have the expression at all.

What does roof expression mean. I recall a rather pretentious friend read acquaintance of mine once telling her boyfriend that she d drunk an elegant sufficiency. Roof idioms by the free dictionary. Of an emotion or feeling very high.

Posted by sr on october 19 2004. My anxiety level has been out the roof lately. 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. Shoot a bunny posted by ward on october 19 2004.

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. Falling off the roof. It probably is related to a literal roof of a house. Definitions by the largest idiom dictionary.

This expression originated in the first half of the 1900s. 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. Submitted by walter rader editor from sacramento ca usa on jun 04 2013. 1960 1 to be sexually incapacitated.