over the moon |
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| Vrste leksičkih jedinica: | idiom |
| Teme: | feelings |
| Izvorne domene: | movement and direction |
| Čestice: | - |
| Usporedba: | - |
| Glagoli: | - |
| ZEROJ razine: | - | Sinonimi: | on cloud nine, walk on air, in seventh heaven, on top of the world | Antonimi: | feel low, in low spirits, feel down | Definicija: | very happy | Primjeri: |
She is over the moon about her prize. My sister will be over the moon with her present. “Harry set Dobby free, and he was over the moon about it!” said Hermione. |
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 cloud nine, on top of the world, feel down