feel low |
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| Lexical unit types: | idiom |
| Topics: | feelings |
| Source domains: | movement and direction |
| Particles: | - |
| Similes: | - |
| Verbs: | - |
| CEFR Levels: | - | Synomyms: | feel down, in low spirits | Antonyms: | in seventh heaven, on cloud nine, over the moon, on top of the world, walk on air | Definition: | to feel sad | Examples: |
When I am feeling low, it helps to watch a film, eat something and call a friend. |
Motivation: |
the conceptual metaphor HAPPY IS UP; SAD IS DOWN Lakoff, George and Mark Johnson. 1980. Metaphors We Live By. Chicago, London: University of Chicago Press.
The Metaphor Box at happy in the Macmillan English Dictionary (by Rosamund Moon): feeling sad and unhappy is like being low down or like falling.
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Slične leksičke jedinice: in low spirits, walk on air, happy as a pig in mud, in seventh heaven, on cloud nine, on top of the world, over the moon, feel down