bring the house down

bring the house down (third-person singular simple present brings the house down, present participle bringing the house down, simple past and past participle brought the house down)

1. Alternative form of bring down the house.
   • 2017, Adam Kay, This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor, London: Picador, →ISBN, page 9:

     He sits back in anticipation of bringing the house down, but there’s merely silence. Until pretty much everyone chimes in with: ‘So, Horner’s syndrome then?’

• bring down the house