Idiom
scrape someone off the ceiling
Meaning
Used to describe the response to someone who is either experiencing great pain, who is very frightened, or is very elated.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“He was so excited that we had to scrape him off the ceiling.”
“When she heard she won the lottery, she was so thrilled that we practically had to scrape her off the ceiling.”
“Upon receiving the unexpected news of her promotion, her reaction was so ecstatic that her colleagues joked they would need to scrape her off the ceiling.”
Examples
simple
“He was so excited that we had to scrape him off the ceiling.”
contextual
“When she heard she won the lottery, she was so thrilled that we practically had to scrape her off the ceiling.”
complex
“Upon receiving the unexpected news of her promotion, her reaction was so ecstatic that her colleagues joked they would need to scrape her off the ceiling.”
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