Wiktionary
vb. (context idiomatic English) To cause a commotion, as by boisterous celebrate or loud complaining; to make considerable noise.
WordNet
v. get very angry; "He will raise the roof when he hears this"
Wikipedia
Raise the Roof is a construction strategy card game for 2 to 4 players.
The game is played by drawing cards in turn and playing them to build your house. Room cards used to build your house range in value from 100 to 400. You can stop other players from building their house, take parts from their house, and even take cards from their hands. The game ends when a house is completed. All players must then add up the value of their respective houses and subtract the value of the cards in their hands (with the exception of the player who has a completed house). The player with the highest score wins.
Raise the Roof was created by Henard Industries in 1982 and was discontinued after only a few years of print.
Raise the Roof was a British television game show which ran from 2 September 1995 to 13 January 1996 for ITV and hosted by Bob Holness.
Raise the Roof may refer to:
- Raise the Roof (card game), a construction strategy card game
- Raise the Roof (game show), a British television game show
- Raise the Roof (producer), a Broadway theatre production group
- Raise the Roof, a book by Pat Summitt
"Raise the Roof" was the lead single from Luke's sixth studio album, Changin' the Game. The song was produced and written by Luke himself and Darren "DJ Spin" Rudnick. The song sampled the "Theme from King Kong" for which legendary composer John Barry also received writing credits.
Upon its release in early 1998, "Raise the Roof" became Luke's biggest hit as a solo artist and his only one to reach the top 40, peaking at No. 26 on the Billboard Hot 100. The uptempo song featured rap group No Good But So Good and helped popularize the dance of the same name. By the summer of 1998, the single achieved gold status, reaching the feat on June 24, 1998 for sales of 500,000 copies, becoming Luke's only certified release as a solo artist. "Raise the Roof" also reached No. 90 on the Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1998 as one of the year's most popular singles.
The song's music video (directed by Dave Meyers (director)) featured Luke and No Good But So Good performing the song in a night club and featured cameos from Stuart Scott, A. J. Johnson, Tyson Beckford, Sean "Puffy" Combs, Ice Cube, WC and Mack 10.
Raise the Roof is a Tony-award winning Broadway producing entity. It is composed of the producers Harriet Leve, Jennifer Isaacson, and the members of WalkRunFly Productions: Brandon Victor Dixon and Warren Adams.
The group was founded by Jean Doumanian, Elaine Krauss, Harriet Leve, and Jennifer Isaacson. Their first venture together was Burn the Floor as Raise the Roof 1. Next, Krauss, Leve, and Manocherian came together as Raise the Roof 2 to produce the recent Broadway production of Superior Donuts by Tracy Letts, the Pulitzer Prize winning playwright of August: Osage County. Doumanian was a lead producer on that production. In 2010, the group, as Raise the Roof 3, produced the Tony nominee for Best Revival, A Little Night Music, starring Catherine Zeta Jones (who won a Tony for this performance) and Angela Lansbury (who was nominated for a Tony for this performance). On July 13, 2010, Broadway legends Bernadette Peters and Elaine Stritch joined the cast and assumed those roles. They were also represented, as Raise the Roof 4, by the Tony Award winning Best Revival of La Cage Aux Folles, starring Kelsey Grammer (who was nominated for a Tony for this performance) and Douglas Hodge (who won a Tony for this performance).
Raise the Roof is a 1930 British musical film directed by Walter Summers and starring Betty Balfour, Maurice Evans and Jack Raine. It was made at Elstree Studios.
The film's sets were designed by the art director John Mead.
Raise the Roof is a one-movement concerto for timpani and orchestra by the American composer Michael Daugherty. The work was commissioned by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra for the opening of the Max M. Fisher Music Center. It was premiered in Detroit, October 16, 2003, with conductor Neeme Järvi leading the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and timpanist Brian Jones. Daugherty later arranged the piece for concert band in 2007; this arrangement was commissioned by the University of Michigan Symphony Band and was premiered under conductor Michael Haithcock at the National Conference of the College Band Directors National Association on March 30, 2007. Raise the Roof is one of Daugherty's most-programmed pieces and has been frequently performed as a concert opener since its publication.
Usage examples of "raise the roof".
He calculated that, if he could and if the chair didn't break, he ought to be able to raise the roof at least two or three inches.
I confess to a weakness for the English Hymnal, and I sing to raise the roof.
Like it's raining out, and he's less apt to raise the roof about going if you show him the door on a sunny day.
If it isn't, my attorneys are going to raise the roof of the courthouse, and I daresay the Gazette won't let the prosecutor get away with anything this time.
She felt that she could jabber about people but not tell tales, and what she was being asked to do was a form of tale-telling, and she imagined that if her da knew he would raise the roof.
Let's leave Brenna alone so she can raise the roof without us worrying it'll crash down on our heads.
Then he hooted gleefully and began to laugh loud enough to raise the roof, joined by the other Vikings.
It may be a pretty wild party, but they can raise the roof as far as I'm concerned.