on cloud nine |
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| Vrste leksičkih jedinica: | idiom |
| Teme: | feelings |
| Izvorne domene: | movement and direction |
| Čestice: | - |
| Usporedba: | - |
| Glagoli: | - |
| ZEROJ razine: | - | Sinonimi: | walk on air, in seventh heaven, over the moon, on top of the world | Antonimi: | feel down, in low spirits, feel low | Definicija: | very happy | Primjeri: |
I was on cloud nine after our win. His song was a big hit and he was on cloud nine.
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Motivacija: |
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. |
Similar lexical units: feel low, in low spirits, walk on air, happy as a pig in mud, in seventh heaven, on top of the world, over the moon, feel down