hit the roof

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EnglishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

• hit the ceiling
• go ballistic

VerbEdit

hit the roof ‎(third-person singular simple present hits the roof, present participle hitting the roof, simple past and past participle hit the roof)

1. (idiomatic) To be explosively angry; to lose one's temper.

   When I found out he wrecked my brand-new car, I hit the roof.

SynonymsEdit

• blow one's top, flip out, go ape, go apeshit, lose it, lose one's rag, pop one's cork

TranslationsEdit

To be explosively angry

• Finnish: hypätä kattoon

• Swedish: gå i taket (sv), få spel