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- the roof caves in
the roof caves in
the roof caves/falls in
(American) if the roof caves in, something very bad suddenly happens to you For the first six years of my life I was happy. Then my father died and the roof caved in.
See hit the ceiling, raise the roof
Common Names:
Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
Andrina | | an-DREEN-ə | English (Rare) |
Shahriar | | - | Persian |
Alesia | | - | English |
Kristoffer | | KREES-tof-fer (Finnish) | Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish |
Florencia | | flo-REN-thyah (Spanish), flo-REN-syah (Latin American Spanish) | Spanish |
Amable | | - | French (Archaic) |