Hit The Roof Meaning Idiom

Hit the roof posted by joe on march 02 2009 at 15 56.

Hit the roof meaning idiom.

The american heritage dictionary of idiomsý page 303. Hit the roof posted by smokey stover on march 03 2009 at 03 15. When the boss saw jim s mistake he hit the roof. The second is a version of a 16th century locution up in the house roof or house top meaning enraged see also.

To become extremely angry or upset. He got really quiet and started balling and unballing his fists. Look it up now. To hit the roof examples.

1 everyone else hit the roof except daddy. Phrase if you hit the roof or go through the roof you become very angry indeed and usually show your anger by shouting at someone. To become extremely angry. My parents are going to hit the roof if they find out we had a party here.

Examples of through the roof in this example a woman uses the expression to talk about the cost of medicine for her son. Dad will hit the roof when he finds out i dented the car. However that meaning more commonly appears with the wording to hit the roof. Where did hit the roof originate from.

See idiom of the day today. The boss hit the roof when he saw that we d already blown through the budget. The first expression dates from the early 1900s. When johnny s dad found out that he d been smoking cigarettes he hit the roof.

He yelled and thumped the desk and told jim to get out. What does the idiom hit the roof mean. Definition of hit the roof from the cambridge academic content dictionary cambridge university press. 2 if the share value at the time you exercise your option has hit the roof it s a lot like winning the lottery just without the risk.

An alternative definition for this idiom is to become extremely angry.