英语词汇bring down the house的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

bring down the house. A performer who brings down the house is so good that the theater seems to vibrate from all the applause he receives and it even seems as if the building will collapse. The common expression is from the British theater and is first recorded in 1754. At least once the house nearly did come down on an audience. During an early performance of Christopher Marlowe’s The Tragicall History of Dr. Faustus, the story of a man who sold his soul to the devil, timbers in the Theater Playhouse suddenly began to crack. Many in the audi- ence thought the building was on the verge of collapse—some attributing this to supernatural causes—and alarmed patrons hurried from the premises. It turned out to be a false alarm, but no one ever established the cause of cracking timbers.

词汇	bring down the house
词源	bring down the house. A performer who brings down the house is so good that the theater seems to vibrate from all the applause he receives and it even seems as if the building will collapse. The common expression is from the British theater and is first recorded in 1754. At least once the house nearly did come down on an audience. During an early performance of Christopher Marlowe’s The Tragicall History of Dr. Faustus, the story of a man who sold his soul to the devil, timbers in the Theater Playhouse suddenly began to crack. Many in the audi- ence thought the building was on the verge of collapse—some attributing this to supernatural causes—and alarmed patrons hurried from the premises. It turned out to be a false alarm, but no one ever established the cause of cracking timbers.
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