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Old May 06, 2009, 07:28 AM
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Pero ¿puede tener un significado negativo también?
Es decir, si alguién está muy, muy enfadado ¿también podría "raise the roof" que sería "poner el grito en el cielo" en español?
We "shout it from the roof" too, but we use it to mean pregonar.

Raise the roof never means very very angry in English. To blow one's stack is the closest term I can think of to poner el grito en el cielo.
Example: he blew his stack when he found out they used his name without
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We "shout it fro the roof" too, but we use it to mean pregonar.

Raise the roof never means very very angry in English. To blow one's stack is the closest term I can think of to poner el grito en el cielo.
Example: he blew his stack when he found out they used his name without
his authorization.
Oh! Ok. I was a bit confused then. I thought it could mean both things.
he blew his stack, he blew his top (off), he threw a wobbler
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"No quepo en mí" might be a similar expression... I'm rejoicing so, that my own body is too small for so much happiness... Like the need for a higher roof maybe... ?

As for "poner el grito en el cielo"... could it be "to hit the roof"?
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"No quepo en mí" might be a similar expression... I'm rejoicing so, that my own body is too small for so much happiness... Like the need for a higher roof maybe... ?

As for "poner el grito en el cielo"... could it be "to hit the roof"?
Yes, hit the roof is right.
I can't contain myself=no quepo en mi. "I'm jumping out of my skin" works too, but it implies anxiety.
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I agree! "Hit the roof" would be to express anger. "Raise the roof" is always positive and exuberant!

David (or some other moderator...) - maybe we ought to break this thread into two threads ... one about "hecho" and one about "raise the roof" (and store it with the idiom discussions).
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El problema con el dicho raise the roof es que tiene varios significados.
Para mí raise the roof significa tener una gran celebración con bulla (fiesta p--a madre?). Entre unos grupos religiosos tipo evangélico es cuando los feligreses se levantan sus brazos en el aire alabando a dios.

Irmamar, se puede decir raise the roof de coche (si el techo es plegable)
Raise the hood -es cuando levanta la parte del auto donde se encuentra
el motor.
Aquí raise the hood means "levanta el capó".

I didn't know this was an expression. I was a bit confused and I thought you were talking about cars. Sorry.
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Aquí raise the hood means "levanta el capó".

I didn't know this was an expression. I was a bit confused and I thought you were talking about cars. Sorry.
No importa. Ahora sabes.
Levanta el capo in Britain is "lift the bonnet"
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No importa. Ahora sabes.
Levanta el capo in Britain is "lift the bonnet"
OK, thanks. Sometimes I'm a bit confused with some British and American English words...
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OK, thanks. Sometimes I'm a bit confused with some British and American English words...
Me too. Sometimes (though not always) it seems like a different language with the same words--if that's possible. Most Americans love well-spoken British-style English. I think it's more precise than American English.
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Me too. Sometimes (though not always) it seems like a different language with the same words--if that's possible. Most Americans love well-spoken British-style English. I think it's more precise than American English.
I don't know if it's the "more precise" that I like about listening to British spoken English. It just SOUNDS so COOL!!!!!

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