the roof caves/falls in

American

if the roof caves in, something very bad suddenly happens to you.

For the first six years of my life I was happy. Then my father died and the roof caved in.

• mad about
• mad about someone
• mad about something
• made for each other
• made up out of whole cloth
• magic moment
• magic touch
• magic wand
• main drag
• make a bad fist of
• make a bad fist of doing something
• make a bad fist of something
• make a beeline for
• make a beeline for someone
• make a beeline for something
• make a big thing of
• make a big thing of something
• make a big thing out of
• make a big thing out of something
• make a case for
• make a case for doing something
• make a case for something
• make a clean breast of it
• make a [day/night/weekend etc.] of it
• make a day of it