Idiom Breakdown

scrape someone off the ceiling

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Definition

Used to describe the response to someone who is either experiencing great pain, who is very frightened, or is very elated.

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"He would come over to my office at least once a week and explode because somebody had been after him. And I would scrape him off the ceiling and send him back until the next week."
"Occasionally, however, they will get a real thriller, and when the horn goes off at a particularly suspenseful point, they say you can scrape the pilots off the ceiling."
"Do you think you could scrape yourself off the ceiling long enough for us to get some sleep?"
"It made my inner self so excited I had to think of baseball or they'd be scraping me off the ceiling."
"No, you'd have to scrape me off the ceiling."
"I spoke with Kip the other day, and you could scrape him off the ceiling with the obvious pride and excitement he shares with Kinsley."
"Barbara Johnson of Melodyland wrote to me about her Spatula Club. "You need a bit of humor. Parents have to be scraped off the ceiling when they first find out. So we make these little spatulas. . . . ""
"Expose a pulp or so called “nerve” of an adult tooth accidently,^([sic]) without an anaesthetic, and you will have to scrape your patient off the ceiling."
"Chapman, you could have scraped me off the ceiling."

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