Chapman writes in the dictionary of american slang third edition.
Off the roof expression.
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.
My anxiety level has been out the roof lately.
1960 1 to be sexually incapacitated.
Definition of roof in the idioms dictionary.
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.
Of an emotion or feeling very high.
Submitted by walter rader editor from sacramento ca usa on jun 04 2013.
Roof idioms by the free dictionary.
Shoot a bunny posted by ward 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.
This expression originated in the first half of the 1900s.
People often use this idiom to describe prices that shoot up quickly or stocks.
The dictionary of american slang doesn t have the expression at all.
Last edited on jun 04 2013.
What does roof expression mean.
Posted by sr on october 19 2004.
Hit the roof go through the roof phrase v inflects.
It probably is related to a literal roof of a house.
I recall a rather pretentious friend read acquaintance of mine once telling her boyfriend that she d drunk an elegant sufficiency.