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	Pronounced	Usage
Hanke	HAHN-kə	Dutch
Timon	TIE-mən (English), TEE-mawn (Dutch)	Ancient Greek, Biblical, Biblical Greek, Biblical Latin, Dutch
Jenni	JEN-ee (English), YEN-nee (Finnish)	English, Finnish
Fane	-	Romanian
Gideon	GID-ee-ən (English)	Biblical, English, Hebrew
Kohinoor	-	Various