| 单词 | through the roof |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthrough the roof Phrases P1. colloquial. a roof over one's head: a place to live, a home; shelter. ΚΠ 1635 A. Stafford Femall Glory 143 Though he [sc. Christ] have a hoomely roofe over his head, the East observes his approach. 1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. Pref. p. x He..was a his wits'-end how to wipe off the score and keep a roof over his head. 1898 Cosmopolitan Aug. 402/2 It will keep a genteel roof over my head here in London, or a small house and a pony-trap in the country. 1937 ‘G. Orwell’ Road to Wigan Pier iv. 52 People will put up with anything..simply to get a roof over their heads. 1995 I. Banks Whit (1996) xiv. 230 Putting three decades of swart and toil into the place for no more reward than a roof over their heads and food in their bellies. P2. the roof and crown of (something): the crowning glory or pinnacle of; cf. crown n. 27. In later use in allusion to Tennyson (see quot. 1832). ΚΠ 1832 Ld. Tennyson Lotos-eaters: Choric Song ii, in Poems (new ed.) 112 Why should we only toil, the roof and crown of things? 1891 Eagle Mar. 463 Man is the roof and crown of things. Cambridge, it is generally allowed, is the roof and crown of man. 1904 Eclectic Rev. 80 669/2 The roman policier is not the roof and crown of the art of fiction. 2002 N. Prasad Personal Bias in Literary Crit. iii. 54 That is why art is ‘the roof and crown of culture’ and without art life would be empty. P3. the roof of the world: (a description applied to) a range of mountains, or a place, regarded as the highest or most elevated in the world (originally applied to the Pamir Mountains in Central Asia, later also to Tibet or the Himalayas); cf. sense 5b. [After Persian bām-i dunyā < bām roof (compare Pahlavi bān, further etymology uncertain) + i of + dunyā world ( < Arabic dunyā (feminine of adnā, elative of danī near, low) in al-dār al-dunyā the lower abode (i.e. the earth, as opposed to the sky; also (in Islamic theological use) this world, as opposed to the hereafter), and similar phrases).] ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > mountain > [noun] > type of > spec pike1555 the roof of the world1840 Munro1903 1840 Lit. Gaz. 13 June 379/1 We stood (to use the native expression) upon the Bami-Dúniah or ‘roof of the world’. 1876 T. E. Gordon (title) The roof of the world, being the narrative of a journey over the high plateau of Tibet to the Russian frontier and the Oxus sources on Pamir. 1889 G. N. Curzon Russia in Central Asia v. 144 Descending from the hidden ‘Roof of the world’, its waters tell of forgotten peoples and whisper secrets of unknown lands. 1932 Punch 23 Nov. 564/3 When I saw ‘climbed’ I make no reference to those inexplicable creatures who, lashed together, enjoy clambering about the roof of the world for the mere fun of not falling off. 1956 G. N. Patterson God's Fool i. 13 I sat there in that remote valley in Tibet where no white man had ever been, fifteen thousand feet above sea-level on the roof of the world. 1979 Yale Alumni Mag. Apr. 2/3 (advt.) Snow-capped peaks of the Himalayas along the roof of the world. 2004 P. Southern Craze xxiv. 178 They swayed gently on the roof of the world, waiting for passengers to alight, cradle by cradle. P4. under (a person's) roof. a. In or into a person's house, esp. with reference to hospitality; also †under roof, under one roof, under the same roof, and in non-personal application. Similarly with beneath, †underneath, †within, etc. ΚΠ eOE tr. Orosius Hist. (BL Add.) (1980) ii. iv. 42 To þon..þæt hie [sc. the senate] bewisten eal þæt licgende feoh under anum hrofe.., þæt hie hit siþþan mehten him eallum gemænelice to nytte gedon. OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Royal) (1997) viii. 244 Drihten, neom ic wyrðe þæt ðu infare under minum hrofe [L. sub tectum meum]. c1225 (?OE) Soul's Addr. to Body (Worcester) (Fragm. C) l. 24 [Nol]dest þu on þine huse herborwen þeo wrecchen, ne mihten heo under [þin]e roue none reste finden. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Matt. viii. 8 That thou entre vndir my roof. a1450 ( tr. Vegetius De Re Militari (Douce) f. 52 (MED) Þey vsed to occupie her foot-men in dedes of armes in þe feld in mery wedir and vndir roof in housynge y-made þerfore in stormes and in foule wedir. a1500 tr. A. Chartier Quadrilogue (Rawl.) (1974) 244 Flyes that make hony..keping togedir their assemble and by their litill pollicey [c1475 Univ. Oxf. polecie] to kepe the lordship of their kyng þat regnith among them vndir a litill praty roofe. 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 31 Thay nevir thair heid sett vndir the ruffe of ony hous. a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) iv. iii. 25 Vnderneath that consecrated roofe, Plight me the full assurance of your faith. View more context for this quotation 1651 Bp. J. Taylor XXVIII Serm. xvi. 200 For so it is fit that a guide should point out every turning, if he be to teach a childe or a fool to return under his fathers roof. 1657 Bp. J. Taylor Disc. Friendship 61 There is very often a likenesse of natural temper, and there is a social life under the same roof. 1701 Cramond Kirk Session IV. 4 July A woman which he calles his neice stayes under roofe with him in the night time. 1744 J. Thomson Winter in Seasons (new ed.) 212 Beneath his low illustrious Roof, Sweet Peace and happy Wisdom smooth'd his Brow. 1782 F. Burney Cecilia III. vi. i. 228 That, since you were now under my roof, I could not refuse to receive their proposals. 1790 in Guide Mus. Pract. Geol. (1859) 98 About 90 painters..and about 200 throwers, turners, &c., were employed under one roof. 1837 J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott I. ix. 317 They had both seen Scott frequently under their own roofs. 1888 J. W. Burgon Lives Twelve Good Men I. iii. 302 For about two years they lived..under the roof of their father's youngest sister. 1920 E. Wharton Age of Innocence xvii. 156 The overcoats were in fact the very strangest he had ever seen under a polite roof. 1952 T. Armstrong Adam Brunskill iii. 69 Beneath Ambrose Pedley's roof, breakfast invariably consisted of ‘gulls’—oatmeal with a little milk—and barley bread, the other meals being of the same calibre. 1987 N. Sibal Yatra i. 100 She came to Dagra to kill herself under my roof. As if the fact of her death would not be painful enough for me otherwise. 2007 Church Times 30 Nov. 23/2 We now have three houses knocked together, with ten adults and six children all living under the same roof. b. figurative and in extended use. ΚΠ c1508 Want of Wyse Men (Chepman & Myllar) in Poems R. Henryson (1908) III. 171 Rycht, na resone vnder na rufe has rest. 1622 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. VI. xvii. 225 That thou who art the God of peace, maist take pleasure to dwell vnder the quiet roofe of our hearts. 1642 T. Fuller Holy State iv. xxi. 353 Some maintain that Princes are too high to come under the roof of any Laws. 1739 D. Bellamy tr. N. A. Pluche Nature Delineated I. xii. 247 These beavers are social Creatures, and a whole Body of them will sometimes reside together under one Roof. 1885 Cent. Mag. May 6/2 There have never before been shown under one roof the products of the mines, fields, orchards, and forests of all our American commonwealths. 1920 Contemp. Rev. Oct. 495 The Spanish Court ladies were sheltered..under the vaulted roof of Latinism. 1996 Economist 26 Oct. 127/2 When deal-making and trading were combined under the same roof, it became easier. P5. colloquial 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. 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!). P6. colloquial to raise (also lift) the roof: to create an uproar, to make a resounding noise. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > resound [verb (intransitive)] singc897 shillc1000 warblea1400 resoundc1425 dun1440 reird1508 rolla1522 rerea1525 peal1593 diapason1608 choir1838 alarm1839 to raise (also lift) the roof1845 whang1854 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > confused sound > [verb (intransitive)] > uproar or tumult clamourc1400 rumblec1405 shout1513 racket1617 to keep a (bad, etc.) quarter1632 to raise a dust1649 obstreperate1765 row1797 uproar1834 to raise Cain1840 to raise the mischief1840 to raise (also lift) the roof1845 steven1855 tow-row1877 1845 T. D. McGee Story O'Sullivan Beare in Nation (Dublin) 6 Dec. 121/1 His father, mother, brother, his lovely sisters twain, Tis they would raise the roof with joy to see him back from Spain. 1852 G. Trask Thoughts & Stories on Tobacco 65 With a full fiendish gaze in my face, he cried out, Tobacco! Tobacco! with an unearthly scream, that seemed to well nigh raise the roof! 1894 ‘M. Twain’ in Cent. Mag. June 233/1 She was here to watch the trial now, and was going to lift up just one ‘hooraw’ over it... ‘When dat verdic’ comes, I's gwine to lif' dat roof, now, I tell you. 1905 Eng. Dial. Dict. V. 147/2 Oxf. Do be quiet, or you'll raise the roof (G.O.). 1922 P. G. Wodehouse Girl on Boat xvi. 253 I couldn't get within ten feet of that dog without its lifting the roof off. 1959 Times 19 Jan. 3/3 A good song to raise the roof. 1972 J. W. Thompson in W. King Black Short Story Anthol. 255 She flew from the kitchen like a startled sparrow, her hands perched nervously upon her hips—all set to raise the roof! 1998 Friends of WNO Newsletter (Welsh National Opera) Feb. 7/3 The wonderful singing almost raised the roof. 2000 J. Griffiths Grip on Thin Air 21 The sun..would course through the house As through a shell,..licking life into The painted dogs in the gallery Until they too give tongue, Raising the roof. P7. colloquial. the roof falls in: something (esp. one's world) collapses irretrievably or some unpredictable disaster occurs; everything goes wrong. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > unfortunately [phrase] > disastrously > disaster occurs the roof falls in1866 1866 D. Boucicault Flying Scud in A. Nicoll & F. T. Cloak Forbidden Fruit & Other Plays (1940) 172 She undertook with all her veight to sit upon my knee... Fourteen stun six, I thought the roof had fell in. 1914 New Outlook 8 Aug. 859/2 I believe the finish of the booze business in this country is in sight. I prefer to step from under before the roof falls in. 1937 E. R. Punshon Mystery Mr. Jessop xxvi. 243 He's getting out from under in case the roof falls in. 1950 Baseball Digest Jan. 53/2 The Barons were hot, the new pitcher was cold, and the roof fell in. 1958 J. Morgan Expense Account ii. 26 And it all worked out exactly right—up to the moment he walked into his office. Then the roof fell in. 1976 H. MacInnes Agent in Place xvii. 191 Georges said, ‘I think the roof just fell in.’ Tony had no reply. For once he was quite speechless. 1990 W. Sheed Ess. in Disguise iii. xvii. 192 Arthur Jensen's famous monograph on the subject came along in 1969, and the roof fell in on IQ. 2003 N.Y. Times 19 Oct. 43/2 After 14 Bf4, Chuchelov should still have tried 14..f6. He really has to do something before the roof falls in. P8. colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.). to come off the roof: to abandon an attitude of superiority; not to put on airs; to come back down to reality (chiefly in imperative). Cf. to come, etc., off one's high horse at horse n. 23b. Now rare.In quot. 2004 in a historical context. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > humility > be humble [verb (intransitive)] > become humble to come downa1382 meeka1400 meekena1500 let fall one's crest1531 to come (also get) off one's perch1568 to come down a peg1589 lower1837 to come off the roof1883 to climb down1887 deflate1912 to come, etc., off one's high horse1920 1883 Life 22 Nov. 256/2 ‘I really wish Mr. Dana would come off the roof. What have I done that I should be made such fun of? I object.’—Holman. 1895 W. P. Ridge Minor Dialogues ix. 86 She took up such a 'igh and mighty attitude..so I says to her, I says, ‘Come off the roof.’ 1910 ‘I. Hay’ Right Stuff i. v. 81 ‘He must be a youth of gigantic intellect,’ I said. ‘Oh, come off the roof!’ 1919 P. G. Wodehouse Their Mutual Child i. ix. 111 Come off the roof, bo. You know well enough who he is. He's your grandson. On the level. 2004 L. Titchener Gunshy ii. 1 All right, come off the roof. I won't comment further. Have you completed your business? P9. colloquial. to hit the roof: = to hit the ceiling at ceiling n. 5b. 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 1921 Quick March 11 July 15 Dicken! I done me block right enough! I come home and the old finger hit the roof. Tike it from me, he's gotter rat. 1928 J. P. McEvoy Show Girl ix. 133 Milton gave me a couple of drinks early in the evening out of his flask and Jimmy hit the roof. 1955 P. Larkin Let. 7 Sept. in Sel. Lett. (1992) 250 I hope you can make these alterations, but if the printers turn awkward I shan't hit the roof. 1971 V. Canning Firecrest x. 149 The P.M. and his cabinet..would hit the roof if they knew half of the things that went on. 2003 Radio Times 7 June (Midlands ed.) 100/4 When a young woman is brought in to have her stomach pumped because she's just binged on ice cream, he nearly hits the roof. < as lemmas |
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