Other forms: raised the roof; raising the roof; raises the roof
Use the phrase raise the roof when you're talking about someone being angry enough to yell. You're likely to raise the roof, for example, if you discover that someone's been reading your private diary.
When your parents raise the roof about the mess you made in the kitchen, they get really mad. The saying raise the roof probably originated in the local dialect of the United States South some time in the mid-1800's, meaning "raise a ruckus" or "make an uproar." People rarely use the expression today, so it sounds a bit old-fashioned.