bring the house down

Meaning

1. to make everyone laugh or cheer, especially at a performance in the theatre

In the movies · 2

• Every night we play this, we bring the house down.Ray2004
• Tell Laura I Love Her. That would bring the house down.High Fidelity2000

From the same entry

• get on like a house on fire
• go all round the houses
• keep house
• on the house
• put your house in order
• set up house
• clean house
• not a dry eye in the house
• eat out of house and home
• people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
• safe as houses