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walk on air
Idioms and Phrases
Feel elated or exuberantly joyful, as in She was walking on air after she found out she'd won the teaching award . This metaphoric term likens feeling happy to floating. [Late 1800s]Example Sentences
The self-proclaimed prophet claims to have cured people of HIV, made the blind see, changed the fortunes of the impoverished and, on at least one occasion, walked on air.
"I'm on cloud nine. I just can't get over it. I'm walking on air," said McCarthy.
United's fans looked like they were walking on air and their manager looked like he was about to join them.
An hour later, he was walking on air.
The show tells the story of Khan, played by Pakistani Canadian actor Iman Vellani, getting her powers from a magical bangle that allows her to walk on air and conjure glowing light shields.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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