on top of the world |
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| Lexical unit types: | idiom |
| Topics: | feelings |
| Source domains: | movement and direction |
| Particles: | - |
| Similes: | - |
| Verbs: | - |
| CEFR Levels: | - | Synomyms: | in seventh heaven, on cloud nine, over the moon, walk on air | Antonyms: | feel down, feel low, in low spirits | Definition: | very happy | Examples: |
He was on top of the world after his win. I feel great; on top of the world.
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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. |
Slične leksičke jedinice: feel low, in low spirits, walk on air, happy as a pig in mud, in seventh heaven, on cloud nine, over the moon, feel down