scrape someone off the ceiling verb1 •Used to describe the response to someone who is either experiencing great pain, who is very frightened, or is very elated.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. — 1979 formsscraped someone off the ceiling · scraping someone off the ceiling · scrapes someone off the ceiling
