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hit the ceiling

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hit the ceiling

 and hit the roof

Fig. to get very angry. She really hit the ceiling when she found out what happened. My dad'll hit the roof when he finds out that I wrecked his car.

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hit the ceiling

See: hit the roof

See also: ceiling, hit

hit the ceiling/roof

  (informal)

to become very angry and start shouting If I'm late again he'll hit the roof.

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hit the ceiling

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."

See also: ceiling, hit

hit the ceiling

and hit the roof

tv. to get very angry. She really hit the ceiling when she found out what happened.

See also: ceiling, hit