raise the roof

1. 1.

   get very angry

   “He will raise the roof when he hears this”

   Broaderanger

Questions about raise the roof

What does raise the roof mean?

raise the roof means "get very angry".

Is raise the roof a common word?

raise the roof is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.