blow the roof off

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To give a great performance that causes the audience to go wild with enthusiasm.
    — I gotta tell you, you blew the roof off. You see that girl over there? She was just raving about your performance.
  2. To completely upset or excite people, generating a huge reaction.
    — "Thou wilt win no more Hollands, I think, on such wager, friend Mike," said the mercer; "for the sulky swain, Tony Foster, rails at thee all to nought, and swears you shall ne'er darken his doors again, for that your oaths are enough to blow the roof off a Christian man's dwelling."
  3. To react with great excitement; to go wild.
    — Rogerson told co-captains Kevin Armstrong and Ned Elton to "say whatever you want, just make sure they're so fired up tomorrow they blow the roof off the locker room."
  4. To react violently; to throw a fit.
    — Mr. McGeer: You do not need to blow the roof off.
  5. To violently disrupt.
    — As Father Jimmy Tompkins, one of Father Coady's associates once pointed out, "...the little people together is a giant. You've got to give them ideas, then they'll blow the roof off.”
  6. To be extremely loud.
    — The volume of the yelling, screaming noise was certain to blow the roof off the stadium !
  7. To exceed a record by a very large margin.
    — You two blew the roof off of the correspondence average long before you blew the roof from the galactic averages.
  8. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blow, roof, off.

词形变化

blows the roof off present,singular,third-person blowing the roof off participle,present blew the roof off past blown the roof off participle,past
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