单词 | go through the roof |
释义 | > as lemmasto go through the roof a. Esp. of bids, prices, sales, etc.: beyond the expected limit, to extreme heights. Chiefly to go through the roof. ΚΠ 1946 E. Hodgins Mr. Blandings builds his Dream House viii. 118 The Knapp sales curves were going through the roof. 1972 Times 24 Oct. 10/3 Only a few special treasures were bid through the roof. 1973 Times 30 Oct. 19/6 On lots that were rare and undamaged they [sc. prices] went through the roof. 1988 Sea Angling Q. Summer 5/2 Dave makes the package attractive by incorporating an extending head without pushing the price through the roof. 1999 H. Redknapp & D. McGovern 'Arry (new ed.) xv. 240 The sales of Perugia shirts in Japan have gone through the roof. 2005 M. M. Frisby Wifebeater ii. 8 My energy level was through the roof like one of them overhyped rappers on the MTV awards. How ironic. to go through the roof b. to go through the roof: to become very angry. Cf. to hit the roof at Phrases 9. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > [verb (intransitive)] > become angry wrethec900 wrothc975 abelghec1300 to move one's blood (also mood)c1330 to peck moodc1330 gremec1460 to take firea1513 fumec1522 sourdc1540 spitec1560 to set up the heckle1601 fire1604 exasperate1659 to fire up1779 to flash up1822 to get one's dander up1831 to fly (occasionally jump, etc.) off (at) the handle1832 to have (also get) one's monkey up1833 to cut up rough, rusty, savage1837 rile1837 to go off the handle1839 to flare up1840 to set one's back up1845 to run hot1855 to wax up1859 to get one's rag out1862 blow1871 to get (also have) the pricker1871 to turn up rough1872 to get the needle1874 to blaze up1878 to get wet1898 spunk1898 to see red1901 to go crook1911 to get ignorant1913 to hit the ceiling1914 to hit the roof1921 to blow one's top1928 to lose one's rag1928 to lose one's haira1930 to go up in smoke1933 hackle1935 to have, get a cob on1937 to pop (also blow) one's cork1938 to go hostile1941 to go sparec1942 to do one's bun1944 to lose one's wool1944 to blow one's stack1947 to go (also do) one's (also a) dingerc1950 rear1953 to get on ignorant1956 to go through the roof1958 to keep (also blow, lose) one's cool1964 to lose ita1969 to blow a gasket1975 to throw a wobbler1985 the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > be great in quantity, amount, or degree [verb (intransitive)] > become very great in quantity, amount, or degree to go through the roof1958 society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > fluctuation in price > [verb (intransitive)] > rise (of prices) > suddenly or rapidly starta1661 zoom1928 soar1929 rocket1931 to take off1935 to go through the roof1958 shoot1968 1958 Spectator 25 July 133/1 Would it have hurt if someone had done it to you before? You'd have gone through the roof? 1975 J. Symons Three Pipe Probl. xviii. 179 The company are simply wild. They have gone through the roof. 1985 D. Lucie Hard Feelings ii. iv, in Progress & Hard Feelings 83/1 Dad..wants to see this place looking good. If anything's not right, he'll go through the roof. 1993 A. Higgins Lions of Grunewald xxxi. 200 Now wasn't that nice? Nancy went through the roof. She let loose her blood-curdling abandon-ship scream, calculated to stop the heart. Mallorca! (Gomorrah!). Arty-Farty-Murnane (Sodom!). < as lemmas |
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