to go through the roof - idiom meaning?

Question

What is the meaning of "to go through the roof" idiom?

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Idiom Conjugations:

 

Answer 2

Gerund Form of the Idiom:

Going through the roof can be bad for your health.
 

Answer 3

Idiom Usage:

To go through the roof can be used formally or informally.

In the imperative:

Don't go through the roof!

 

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Idiom Scenario 3:

go through the roof  

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Idiom Scenario 2:

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Two coworkers are talking about their boss ...

Worker 1: I am just so angry.
Worker 2: Why is that?
Worker 1: You know that I have been working on a big project for weeks now ...
Worker 2: Yes. And?
Worker 1: I have been keeping the boss informed for every part of the project. When I finally finished the project and showed it to her, she rejected half of it and told me to redo those parts. Why couldn't she have told me when I talked to her about each step before I went ahead and did all that work?
Worker 2: You must be very upset.
Worker 1: I feel like I'm going to go through the roof!

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Idiom Scenario 1:

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Two friends are talking ...

Friend 1: Do you remember those penny stocks we bought last year for ten cents a share?
Friend 2: Oh, ya! I hadn't thought of those for a long time.
Friend 1: I checked the price of the stock this morning. You'll never believe what's happened. The price has increased to fifteen dollars and twenty cents a share.
Friend 2: You've got to be kidding me.
Friend 1: No! The stock price has gone through the roof.

Answer 7

Idiom Definition 1:

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"to go through the roof" - things

a statistic or number that rises very quickly to an unpredicted incredibly high value
 

Synonyms: accelerate, ascend, beeline, bullet, burst, climb, dash, drive, escalate, fleet, fly, haste, hasten, hurry, hustle, jet, jump, race, rip, rise, rocket, rush, sail, shoot, soar, speed, surge, tower, whisk, wing
 
 

 
 

Idiom Definition 2:

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"to go through the roof" - people

to become very angry  

Synonyms: anger, angered, angry, annoy, annoyed, choleric, fuming, furious, impassioned, incensed, infuriated, irate, livid, mad, outraged, provoked, rage, raging, riled, splenetic, steamed, storming, ticked, wrathful