in seventh heaven |
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| Lexical unit types: | idiom |
| Topics: | feelings |
| Source domains: | movement and direction |
| Particles: | - |
| Similes: | - |
| Verbs: | - |
| CEFR Levels: | - | Synomyms: | on cloud nine, on top of the world, over the moon, walk on air | Antonyms: | feel down, in low spirits, feel low | Definition: | very happy | Examples: |
Last year, they threw him a big birthday party, and he was in seventh heaven . We had a beautiful day and there were so many dogs. I was in seventh heaven. |
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 happy is like being high up or like moving upwards.
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Slične leksičke jedinice: feel low, in low spirits, walk on air, happy as a pig in mud, on cloud nine, on top of the world, over the moon, feel down