Meaning of blow the roof off | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To give a great performance that causes the audience to go wild with enthusiasm.
2. To completely upset or excite people, generating a huge reaction.
3. To react with great excitement; to go wild.
4. To react violently; to throw a fit.
5. To violently disrupt.
6. To be extremely loud.
7. To exceed a record by a very large margin.
8. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blow, roof, off.

Examples

“I gotta tell you, you blew the roof off. You see that girl over there? She was just raving about your performance.”

“The lights went down. And we blew the roof off the place.”

“It was the most beautiful concert hall I had ever seen. It seated 1,000 people and had very sensitive acoustics, so when we hit the stage we blew the roof off the mother.”

“The captain’s pullback found McTominay arriving in support to finish past Kepa Arrizabalaga via a nick off Inigo Martinez and blow the roof off the national stadium.”

“McTominay produced an acrobatic volley that simply took your breath away - and blew the roof off Hampden.”

“"Thou wilt win no more Hollands, I think, on such wager, friend Mike," said the mercer; "for the sulky swain, Tony Foster, rails at thee all to nought, and swears you shall ne'er darken his doors again, for that your oaths are enough to blow the roof off a Christian man's dwelling."”

“On Harriman: "His main effort is aimed at using civil rights as an explosive issue to blow the roof off convention hall.”

“"Make that piece good," he said. "Blow the roof off."”

“I read your report with care last night. It is very valuable to me – but if it leaked it would blow the roof off the White House , it would blow the roof off the Kremlin . We'd have the most serious situation on our hands that has yet occurred in my Administration.”

“At a recent service, “I blew the roof off the Temple,” Bergman wrote. I went off on a discussion of Lesbians, Homosexuals, and all people who are assigned to ghettos by the smug, complacent, dominating bourgeois Babbitts of the middle class, who cover their vicious subtle vices by condemning others who differ from them, as a means of warding off judgement and guilt from themselves. Spontaneious reaction should be "So What"– to realization of emotional differences among people. A person is a Lesbian or a Homosexual or this or that– "So What." And that blew the roof off!”

“Rogerson told co-captains Kevin Armstrong and Ned Elton to "say whatever you want, just make sure they're so fired up tomorrow they blow the roof off the locker room."”

““Let's get ready for the most dangerous sport in rodeo,” the announcer yelled over the PA system and the crowd almost blew the roof off the arena yellin' and stompin' their feet.”

“And the fans blew the roof off. They leaped the wall, slid down the dugout roofs, overran the cops, flooded in from the outfield bleachers, threw hats and scorecards into the air.”

“Mr. McGeer: You do not need to blow the roof off.”

“Like any editor, he likes facts put down simply, accurately, with initials, names, and dates, and will blow the roof off if he has to miss a good story because of any omissions.”

“She fucking blew the roof off with her bitching about you and Jacks.”

“As Father Jimmy Tompkins, one of Father Coady's associates once pointed out, "...the little people together is a giant. You've got to give them ideas, then they'll blow the roof off.””

“We decided to blow the roof off the situation in order to bring about a more civilized market.”

“The volume of the yelling, screaming noise was certain to blow the roof off the stadium !”

“Sound cards come with all computers right now, and the one in your computer will probably do the job for you unless you're a hard-core gamer looking to blow the roof off with your sound effects.”

“You two blew the roof off of the correspondence average long before you blew the roof from the galactic averages.”

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