[Ads-l] Miscellany

[Wilson Gray]

Heard on local news
A fireman says to a reporter,
"By the time we got here, the flames were _through the roof_."
Is this the source of such expressions as:

When she said yes, I was through the roof!
After she had explained the concept, my enthusiasm was through the roof!
During the concert, the fumes of Teen Spirit were through the roof!

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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