If someone is happy in an enthusiastic and lively way, we can say they are like a dog with two tails, and if they have a self-satisfied air, they are like the cat that got the cream. All of these phrases are slightly old-fashioned now. It is thought that ‘Larry’ is the undefeated boxer Larry Foley (1849-1917), and that ‘sandboys’ were youths whose job was to deliver sand for the floors of inns, and who were ‘happy’ because they were often rewarded with alcohol! The American version is probably a shortening of ‘as happy as a clam at high tide’, i.e. Q : Where did the expression ' being on Cloud Nine ' come from Im not even 18 yet, so Im on Cloud Nine. Right when I ran out, I was on Cloud Nine. 'Ever since the transplant, Ive been floating on cloud nine ,' 'Im still on cloud nine from yesterday, ' he said. There are several rather strange similes connected with happiness: Brits and Australians are as happy as Larry or as happy as a sandboy and Americans are as happy as a clam. I was on Cloud Nine out there and enjoying it. Something that brightens up your day makes you feel happier, and if you revel in a situation or an activity, you get great pleasure from it. If someone has been sad but becomes more cheerful, we say that they cheer up or perk up. In British English, we also say that we are thrilled to bits. Cloud nine idiom concept as a group of floating puffy cumulus clouds as a symbol of euphoria or joy and a happy or feeling happiness as a psychological state of. If you are extremely pleased about something that has happened, you can say that you can’t believe your luck.
#FLOATING ON CLOUD NINE MEANING FULL#
Moving away from height metaphors, In British and Australian English, we can say (rather sweetly, I always think) that someone in a generally happy mood is full of the joys of spring. Similarly, something that makes you feel happier is said to lift your spirits. We can say that we are walking/ floating on air, on top of the world or over the moon. However, later that week he was floating on cloud nine after finally receiving a job offer. He began wondering if he would ever find work. He’s applied everywhere in town, but nobody has hired him yet. Example: Will has been searching hard for a job. Several other happiness idioms rely on the metaphorical idea of being in a very high place. The phrase on cloud nine is an idiom that means a person is feeling happy or delighted. In fact, you are in seventh heaven (from the belief in some religions that there are seven levels of heaven, the seventh being the highest). Still, it’s enough to know that if you are on cloud nine, you are extremely happy. Nobody really knows the origins of this phrase – one theory is that it refers to the cumulonimbus cloud that was number nine in the ‘International Cloud Atlas’ and rises higher than all other clouds, while another relates to one of the stages of enlightenment in Buddhist thought. Let’s start with the phrase I’ve used in the title: on cloud nine. My last post was all about sadness, so it is good to turn to a more cheerful subject: happiness.
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