hit the roof

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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.

   Synonyms: hit the ceiling, go ballistic, blow one's top, flip out, go ape, go apeshit, lose it, lose one's rag, pop one's cork

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

• scrape someone off the ceiling