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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 |
Thorburn | | THAWR-bərn | English (Rare) |
Rava | | RAH-vah | Esperanto |
Gerben | | KHER-bən | Dutch |
Christos | | - | Theology |
Cintia | | THEEN-tyah (Spanish), SEEN-tyah (Latin American Spanish) | Spanish, Hungarian |
Abimael | | - | Biblical |