be on a roll

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   to be experiencing a period of success at what you are doing

   And that was at the beginning, so we thought we were on a roll.

   We won three games in a row. Yeah, we're on a roll!

In the movies · 4

• And that was at the beginning, so we thought we were on a roll.Friends: The Reunion2021
• Heh-heh, you're on a roll, Beavis.Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe2022
• We won three games in a row. Yeah, we're on a roll!Slap Shot1977
• Roll, roll, roll, roll.Transformers: Age of Extinction2014
• Roll, roll, roll!Room2015
• Roll sound. Roll!Spielberg2017
• Pick and roll.The Internship2013
• Roll the camera.Downton Abbey: A New Era2022

Learn it in full scenes

• Friends: The Reunion2021
  • The Cast Returns to the Set
  • The Friends Cast Reunites On Stage
  • The Cast Reunites at the Fountain
• Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe2022
  • Judge Sentences the Boys to Space Camp
  • NASA Recruits Beavis and Butt-Head
  • Beavis and Butt-Head Train for Space
• Spielberg2017
  • Spielberg Hides the Shark
  • Spielberg Takes the Camera
  • Spielberg Gets His Universal Contract

From the same entry

• a roll in the hay
• be rolling in money
• let's roll
• rolled into one
• rolling in the aisles
• a rolling stone gathers no moss
• roll on
• roll up your sleeves
• roll with the punches
• get the ball rolling
• turn in his grave
• heads will roll

More idioms

• nothing of the kind
• under pressure
• close by
• out of your hands
• that's that
• every penny
• in black and white
• have to hand it to
• with your bare hands
• on the streets
• away from home
• out of business