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over the rainbow en · ADP

Meanings

  1. Extremely happy; thrilled.
    • She was beyond happiness, she was over the rainbow. 2010, Linda Lecuona, Uri: A Donkey's Tale of the Cross, →ISBN, page 18:
    • It practically called out to me, and when I saw the three dollar price tag, I was over the rainbow for it. 2007, Martin H. Greenberg, Jean Rabe, Pandora's Closet, →ISBN:
    • So when we landed in Rosedale that Saturday the 28th of June, we weren't in Toronto anymore, but only Grandma was over the rainbow to see us. 2006, Dorothy Palmer, When Fenelon Falls, →ISBN, page 54:
  2. The afterlife or the path a soul takes to reach the afterlife.
    • I mean the man I'm based on is dead and gone. His soul rose up over the rainbow and is headed for an existence way beyond what we are. 2015, Walter Mosley, Inside a Silver Box: A Novel, →ISBN, page 229:
    • Knowing that these would be my final moments with my son, I told him that if he needed to go, it would be all right. And with my cheek against his, I whispered in his ear, “I'll meet you just over the rainbow, tomorrow.” 2012, Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Chicken Soup for the Soul Children with Special Needs, →ISBN:
    • Somewhere over the rainbow My son waits for me, There in the presence of our Heavenly Father He's as happy as can be. 2012, Linda Hussey, Diamond in the Sky, page 56:
    • One thing for sure, I won't know until I die. And it looks like we don't let the ones left behind know what is over the rainbow. 2013, Gary Fish, Yes, Men Do Cry: A Journal, →ISBN, page 194:
  3. Beyond one's grasp; impossible to reach or achieve.
    • Even if it is finished and we have no souls, there may still be some higher order of intelligence out there, somewhere over the rainbow, or in a parallel universe we cannot see. 2010, G.R. Pafumi, Is Our Vision of God Obsolete?, →ISBN:
    • Where is the pot of gold over the rainbow here? 2012, Bonnie Kaye, Doomed Grooms: Gay and Bisexual Husbands in Straight Marriages, →ISBN:
    • Some of these dreams have always felt “over the rainbow” while others appeared to almost be in our grasp. 2015, Grant D. Fairley, William S Cook Jr., Your Third Act: A Guide to a Great Retirement, →ISBN: