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walk on air

To be in a state of extreme happiness. I've been walking on air ever since I got engaged!See also: air, on, walk

walk on air

Fig. to be very happy; to be euphoric. Ann was walking on air when she got the job. On the last day of school, all the children are walking on air.See also: air, on, walk

walk on air

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] See also: air, on, walk

walk on air

feel elated. 1977 Bernard MacLaverty Secrets ‘I'm sure you're walking on air,’ my mother said to Paul at his wedding. See also: air, on, walk

walk on air

To feel elated.See also: air, on, walk

walk on air, to

To feel exuberantly joyful. The expression calls up the image of floating, perhaps (originally) like an angel. John Keats, in his romantic poem “Isabella,” describes two lovers, “Parting they seemed to tread upon the air, Twin roses by the zephyr blown apart only to meet again more close.”See also: on, walk