be flying high
If a person or a company is flying high, they are very successful:
The company was flying high as a maker of personal computers.
US informal to be very excited or happy:
When the winter Olympics came to Canada, the whole country was flying high.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Successful (things or people)
- a heavy hitter idiom
- achiever
- alive
- alpha male
- ascendant
- chart
- fly
- have the world at your feet idiom
- healthy
- high-flyer
- high-flying
- lion
- made
- ride
- roll
- to have arrived idiom
- top-rated
- tried
- triumphant
- up and down idiom
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Excited, interested and enthusiastic