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bring the house down
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bring the house down 
1. Lit. to cause a house to collapse. The most severe earthquake in years finally brought the house down. The earthquake brought down all the houses on the hillside.
2. Fig. [for a performance or a performer] to excite the audience into making a great clamor of approval. Karen's act brought the house down. She really brought down the house with her comedy.
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bring the house down
if someone or something brings the house down during a play or show, they make the people watching it laugh or clap very loudly The clown sang a duet with the talking horse, which brought the house down every night.
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bring the house down also bring down the house
to entertain people very successfully, so that they laugh or clap for a long time The clown sang a duet with the talking horse, which brought the house down every night.
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Comedy Bill Bailey: Tinselworm (Channel 4, 10pm) THE funniest bearded, babbling, bug-eyed druid the world has ever seen returns to the stage with a truly spectacular set, making full use of his prodigious musical and comedic talents to bring down the house at Wembley Arena.
Lot of Bailey laughs for comic show by Birmingham Mail (England)
Anheuser-Busch) Finally if you want to bring down the house with a big beer, you might as well make it an obscenely good one, which is a fitting descriptor for He' Brew's big rye IPA, Bittersweet Lenny's R.
Sip, savor, repeat by Bryson, Lew / Cheers
But just when it looked as if they would have to settle for a point Sloan produced his moment of magic to bring down the house.
STEVIE IS A SLOAN SHARK; THIRD DIVISION by Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland)
 
 
 
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