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hit the ceiling
- To become extremely angry: “When Corey found out someone had stolen his CD player, he really hit the ceiling.”
Idioms and Phrases
Also, hit the roof . Explode in anger, as in Jane hit the ceiling when she saw her grades , or Dad hit the roof when he didn't get his usual bonus . The first expression dates from the early 1900s; the second is a version of a 16th-century locution, up in the house roof or house-top , meaning “enraged.”Example Sentences
The small fermenting tanks from my last visit had been replaced by much larger ones that she was planning to return because their tops wouldn’t open without hitting the ceiling.
Passengers who were on board a Dublin-bound flight which experienced severe turbulence have described seeing people 'hit the ceiling' when the aircraft dropped very suddenly.
“Within an instant, they hit the ceiling of the cabin and dropped right back onto the floor.”
Speaking to the BBC, Mr Jokat revealed that people had hit the ceiling with such force "some of the roof panels were broken".
Once, as he was boiling eggs, they exploded and hit the ceiling.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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