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
See also: cave, roof

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Andrinaan-DREEN-əEnglish (Rare)
Shahriar-Persian
Alesia-English
KristofferKREES-tof-fer (Finnish)Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish
Florenciaflo-REN-thyah (Spanish), flo-REN-syah (Latin American Spanish)Spanish
Amable-French (Archaic)