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through the roof en · ADP

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (figuratively, idiomatic) Having risen to a very high level or amount.
    • I looked in some estate agents' today – the prices are through the roof. 2015, Linda Newbery, Andie's Moon: The Historical House:
    • His heartbeat increased in intensity, his hormones went through the roof, and his mind became woozy. 2014, Kwame Owusu-Baafi, Through the Eyes of the Spirit, page 136:
    • Soybean meal prices have gone through the roof — they're over $100 a ton, back to war-time levels — because of heavy exports and a short 1953 crop. 1954, Farm Journal, volume 78, page 18:
    • The trillion-dollar I.P.O.s do worry me, but for another reason. My concern is that stock offerings of this remarkable size are coming to market only because A.I. stock prices have already risen through the roof. 2026 June 13, Jeff Sommer, “Mega I.P.O. Frenzy Could Be a Harbinger of a Stock Bubble”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
    • That computer was high priced, and the interest was through the roof, but we got it! 2011, Kaleda Carthran, Looking Through the Mirrors of Me: The Life of Kaleda Carthran:
    • When I found out fuel prices are through the roof this winter, I hit the roof.
    • My numbers were through the roof, and I was beating records held by some of the most successful cyclists. 2012, David Millar, Racing Through the Dark: Crash. Burn. Coming Clean. Coming Back.:
    • With 16 minutes left on the clock and the tension climbing through the roof, Trinh-Duc tried his luck with a penalty from just inside halfway only to push it wide, but the unthinkable now seemed a real possibility. 2011 October 23, Tom Fordyce, “2011 Rugby World Cup final: New Zealand 8-7 France”, in BBC Sport:
    • Fuel prices have gone through the roof since last fall.

Antonyms

through the floor

Deriveds

through the wazoo

Relateds

off the charts · off-the-charts

Synonyms

through the ceiling

Translations (8)

it alle stelle (having risen to a very high level) · fi katossa (having risen to a very high level) · da til vejrs (having risen to a very high level) · pl poza skalę (having risen to a very high level) · nl door het dak (having risen to a very high level) · es por las nubes (having risen to a very high level) · ru до небе́с (having risen to a very high level) · ru вы́ше кры́ши (having risen to a very high level)