On The Roof Idiom

Like a cat on hot bricks.

On the roof idiom.

7 if a number of things or people are under one roof or under the same roof they are in the same building. Cat on a hot tin roof a southernism that meant someone who was on edge or nervous. That which ye have spoken. The boss hit the roof when he saw that we d already blown through the budget.

The roof caves in. Skited without any worry of consequence. Snow on the roof. In this sense the phrase is being used metaphorically.

An alternative definition for this idiom is to become extremely angry. A similar phrase using housetops appears in the new testament luke 12 3. Live under the same roof. To inhale alcohol at such a level that you cannot see.

Cat hot on roof tin. Roof over one s head a. Under one the same roof. To become extremely angry or upset.

Shall be proclaimed upon the housetops c. To be mortal with drink. Roof over one s head a. Under one roof under the same roof phrase phr after v v link phr.

Under the same roof. Under one the same roof. An all day bender. Roof over one s head.

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. My parents are going to hit the roof if they find out we had a party here. To be out of control on the bevy. People often use this idiom to describe prices that shoot up quickly or stocks.

The roof caves in. Like a cat on a hot tin roof. Keyed up to the roof. Roof over one s head.

Go through the roof meaning. To rise to a very high level. Raise the roof to. If something actually were to go through the roof of a house it would have risen very high and fast and unexpectedly as well.

The phrase survives as the title of tennessee williams s 1955 pulitzer prize winning drama. On the roof to be absolutely burst out your tree on the bevy. To get very angry. To rise to a very high level.

To have a skin full. The roof falls in. Raise the roof to.