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Construction workers take ‘raise the roof’ literally

Three construction workers wearing yellow helmets inside an unfinished building, dancing with their hands in the air to musical notes, while their foreman watches holding a clipboard and says, 'No, seriously, I need you guys to raise the roof...'.

When your boss isn't great with metaphors, but you give it your all anyway.

This cartoon plays on the double meaning of the phrase 'raise the roof.' Instead of lifting the building's roof as part of construction, the workers are shown enthusiastically dancing and raising their arms as if at a party, misunderstanding their foreman's instructions.

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