| 单词 | on cloud seven or nine |
| 释义 | > as lemmason cloud seven or nine b. in the clouds: obscure, mystical; fanciful, unreal; above the range of ordinary understanding (generally combining the notions of obscurity and elevation); cf. in the air at air n.1 Phrases 2, up in a balloon; colloquial phrase (originally U.S.) on cloud seven or nine (see quot. 1960); also attributive; cf. seventh heaven n. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > fancy or fantastic notion > [adverb] > in realm of fancy in the cherubins1542 in the clouds1651 in the skies1845 in or beyond one's wildest dreams1961 the mind > emotion > pleasure > happiness > in a state of happiness [phrase] on cloud seven or nine1956 1651 N. Bacon Contin. Hist. Disc. Govt. xxviii. 228 The reversion is in the Clouds, but the right of inheritance much more. 1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 176. ⁋11 They pry into the worlds of conjecture, and amuse themselves with phantoms in the clouds. 1832 T. Attwood Speech 7 May in Life (1885) xiii. 201 In the clouds were they [the House of Lords] cradled..in the clouds will they die. 1956 O. Duke Sideman ix. 120 Oh, she's off on Cloud Seven—doesn't even know we exist. 1959 Down Beat 14 May 20 I don't like strange music, I'm not on Cloud Nine. 1960 H. Wentworth & S. B. Flexner Dict. Amer. Slang 110/2 Cloud seven, on, completely happy, perfectly satisfied; in a euphoric state. 1963 Listener 14 Feb. 301/1 There we were. On cloud nine. 1963 Times 11 Mar. 9/4 Instead of Cloud Seven philosophy we got something much more materialistic. < as lemmas |
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