bring the house down Definition

bring
verb brought, bringing

1. To carry or take something or someone to a stated or implied place or person.

Example: Bring the cup here
Thesaurus: transport, convey, carry, conduct, bear, transfer.
2. To make someone or something be in, or reach, a certain state.

Example: It brought him to his senses
Example: bring two new rules into effect
3. To make something or result in it.

Example: War brings misery
Thesaurus: cause, produce, effect, begin, make, generate, beget, institute, initiate, engender, create.
4. To persuade, make or force oneself to do (something unpleasant).

Example: I can't bring myself to tell her
Form: bring oneself to do something (especially)
5. To be sold for (a stated price); to produce (a stated amount) as income.

Form: bring in something (especially)
6. To make (a charge or action, etc) against someone.
7. To give (evidence) to a court, etc.

Derivative: bringer
noun

Idiom: bring home something (bring something home to someone)

To prove or show it clearly.

Idiom: bring the house down

Said of an actor or performer, etc: to receive ecstatic applause; to be brilliantly successful.

Idiom: bring something to bear

To make (pressure or influence) felt; to apply it.

Idiom: bring something to mind

To make it be remembered or thought about.
Example: That story brought to mind my student days

Idiom: bring up the rear

To come last or behind all the others.

Idiom: bring someone up short

To make them stop suddenly.
Example: The doorbell brought me up short

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon bringan.

Phrasal Verb: bring something about

To make it happen; to cause it.

Phrasal Verb: bring something or someone along

Usually said of a person: to bring or convey (a thing or person) with them.To help something develop.
Example: His visit brought the decorating along greatly

Phrasal Verb: bring something back

To make (a thought or memory) return.

Phrasal Verb: bring someone down

To make them sad or disappointed, etc.To demean them.

Phrasal Verb: bring something down

To make it fall or collapse.

Phrasal Verb: bring something forth

To give birth to or produce (an offspring, etc).

Phrasal Verb: bring something forward

To move (an arrangement, etc) to an earlier date or time.To draw attention to it.
Example: I hesitate to bring the matter forward
To transfer (a partial sum) to the head of the next column.

Phrasal Verb: bring something in

To introduce it or make it effective, etc.To produce (income or profit).

Phrasal Verb: bring something off

To succeed in doing (something difficult).
Example: It's really tricky, so I hope I can bring it off OK

Phrasal Verb: bring something on

To help it to develop or progress.
Example: The rain will bring on my seedlings
To make it happen or appear.
Example: This weather brings on my arthritis

Phrasal Verb: bring something out

To emphasize or clarify something (often a quality in someone).
Example: brings out the worst in me
To publish or release it.
Example: brought out a new novel

Phrasal Verb: bring someone out in something

To cause them to be affected with (spots or a rash, etc).
Example: Cats bring me out in spots

Phrasal Verb: bring someone over or round or around

To convince them that one's own opinions, etc are right; to convert them to one's own side.

Phrasal Verb: bring someone round

To cause them to recover consciousness.

Phrasal Verb: bring someone to

To make (someone who is asleep or unconscious) wake up.

Phrasal Verb: bring something to

To bring (a ship) to a standstill.

Phrasal Verb: bring someone up

To care for and educate them when young.

Phrasal Verb: bring something up

To introduce (a subject) for discussion.To vomit or regurgitate (something eaten).

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house
noun

1. A building in which people, especially a single family, live.

Thesaurus: habitation, abode, domicile, dwelling, residence.
2. The people living in such a building.
3. An inn or public house.
4. A building used for a specified purpose.

Example: an opera-house
5a. A business firm;

Example: a publishing house
Thesaurus: business, corporation, establishment, firm, partnership, company.


Example: the house journal
6. The audience in a theatre, a theatre itself or a performance given there.
7. The legislative body that governs a country, especially either chamber in a bicameral system.

Example: the House of Commons
Example: the House of Lords
Thesaurus: congress, council, assembly, legislature, senate, parliament.
Form: the House (often)
8a. In Oxford: Christ Church College;

Form: the House
8b. In London: the Stock Exchange;

Form: the House
8c. In London: the Houses of Parliament.

Form: the House
9. A family, especially a noble or royal one.

Example: the House of Hanover
Thesaurus: family, ancestry, blood, clan, line, lineage, descent, race, tradition.
Form: House
10. astrol.
One of the twelve divisions of the heavens.
(Brit)
11. One of several divisions of pupils at a large school.
12a. A college or university building in which students live;
12b. A building at a boarding-school in which pupils live.
13. A building in which members of a religious community live; a convent.
14. house music.

verb housed, housing

1. To provide with a house or similar shelter.

Thesaurus: accommodate, bed, board, quarter, lodge, harbour, hold.
2. To store.

Thesaurus: keep, protect, shelter, store.
3. To protect by covering.

Idiom: bring the house down

colloq
To evoke loud applause in a theatre; to be a great success.

Idiom: keep house

To manage a household.

Idiom: keep open house

To be hospitable or provide entertainment for all visitors.

Idiom: like a house on fire

Very well.
Example: They get on like a house on fire

Very quickly.
Thesaurus: quickly, actively, energetically, vigorously.

Idiom: on the house

Said of food, drink, etc: at the expense of the manager or owner; free of charge.
Thesaurus: free, complimentary, gratis, gratuitous.

Idiom: put one's house in order (set one's house in order)

To organize or settle one's affairs.

Idiom: safe as houses

See under safe.

Idiom: set up house

To begin one's own domestic life.

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon hus.