Bring Down The House Meaning

(idiomatic) To garner enthusiastic or wild applause.

Example: 1908, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables:
  "Well, your recitations just brought down the house, Anne. That sad one was simply splendid."

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