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Definition of to bring the house down

bring the house down

verb

  • to greatly impress a crowd.
                                                                                                                                                              

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

    Citation from "Chapter 10", Eastbound & Down (TV), Season 2 Episode 4 (2010) censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.

    Last edited on Dec 19 2011. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Dec 19 2011.

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Other terms relating to 'bring':

Definitions include: to sadden one.
Definitions include: to earn an income.
Definitions include: to bring a person to law enforcement.
Definitions include: an invitation for a competition, such as a fight, game, etc.
Definitions include: an invitation.
Definitions include: to deliver a good performance ("A-game").
Definitions include: to show what you can do in a fight or sports event.
Definitions include: to bring an object to a place that already has many of that object.
Definitions include: contribute, to a group effort.
Definitions include: "bring your own..."
Definitions include: acronym for "bring your own beer", "bring your own bottle", or "bring your own booze".
Definitions include: "bring your own wine".

Other terms relating to 'down':

Definitions include: to prepare for hardship.
Definitions include: a fight or severe beating.
Definitions include: It means having to beat someone up.
Definitions include: to back down from a situation.
Definitions include: to vomit into a toilet.
Definitions include: also "bow down to the white porcelain god."
Definitions include: to sadden one.
Definitions include: unattractive.
Definitions include: a person who has oral sex and intercourse with multiple people.
Definitions include: to knuckle down; to submit to; to melt down; to be unable to take the heat; to give in.
Definitions include: overly formal, conservative.
Definitions include: to eat.
Definitions include: to give someone oral sex.
Definitions include: to stop being angry.
Definitions include: a low rider car which is noted for its "thuggish" looks.

Other terms relating to 'house':

Definitions include: genre of electronic music
Definitions include: jail.
Definitions include: prison.
Definitions include: at a dining table, a reach to retrieve something a long distance away.
Definitions include: nice rack
Definitions include: a large muscular person.
Definitions include: anything solid, sturdy, well-built.
Definitions include: of a woman, to be well-endowed.
Definitions include: large, muscular, and strongly built.
Definitions include: Coffee house commando
Definitions include: very crazy.
Definitions include: as a guest, to eat an excessive amount.
Definitions include: To steal.
Definitions include: at the present location.
Definitions include: an insane asylum.

Other terms relating to 'the':

Definitions include: the real information or the proof, instruction, the know how, where, when, and why about something or someone.
Definitions include: walking, generally as opposed to driving.
Definitions include: interrogation.
Definitions include: extremely intoxicated
Definitions include: information.
Definitions include: something you have now is worth more than two things you have just a chance of getting.
Definitions include: a good estimate.
Definitions include: a secret advantage.
Definitions include: inclusive.
Definitions include: to make a bad situation worse.
Definitions include: with the amount of time left to finish a task rapidly disappearing.
Definitions include: having an opinion or belief prior to it becoming common or popular.
Definitions include: of a male, to urinate.
Definitions include: Someone being butthurt over having something, they do to others regularly, done to the them
Definitions include: secret sexual activity with a person other than one's partner.

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