raise the roof

Guests were dressed in sparkly sequins, a 20-piece orchestra raised the roof and Dawn French - as the Vicar of Dibley - gave a sermon at the lectern.

The tomb became an enclosed vault after an 18th Century earl raised the roof.

I was in the middle of “raising the roof” when a pocket-sized man approached me and asked if I liked his friend.

"Her voice is a wonder, both seductive and subtle, but big enough to raise the roof. It's an extraordinary performance in a beautiful rethinking of one of Lloyd Webber's greatest shows."

“We added 100 square feet to the front of the house and raised the roof in the living room,” Cooke says.