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on top of the world
Idioms and Phrases
Feeling very happy, delighted, as in She was on top of the world after her roses won first prize . This idiom alludes to the peak of success or happiness. [c. 1920]Example Sentences
Alex Warren is on top of the world.
"You go from dead and buried to feeling the elation of being on top of the world."
Foreman was seemingly on top of the world again, though three fights later he would lose to Jimmy Young on points in a sluggish performance in Puerto Rico.
Unemployment is rising, housing markets are collapsing, the price of eggs is somewhere around one million dollars per embryo and Lady Gaga has released an incredible new single after weeks on top of the world.
"If I could go from being absolutely on top of the world to being told 'the bottom part of your heart isn't working', I kept thinking in my head, 'Well, what if the top half stops working overnight?"
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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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