bring the house down
If someone or something brings the house down during a play or show, they make the people watching it laugh or clap very loudly:
The clown sang a duet with the talking horse, which brought the house down every night.
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Humour & humorous
- a bundle of laughs idiom
- blackly
- bring
- bundle
- crack
- don't make me laugh! idiom
- funny ha-ha or funny peculiar? idiom
- gallows humour
- hysterical
- jocular
- josh
- killing
- lambent
- laugh
- sarcasm
- satirize
- tickle
- tongue
- witty
- wordplay
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