Emotions & feelings

walk on air

feel extremely happy

If you are walking on air, you feel extremely happy and excited.

C1 now and then speech & writing

expression

Hear it in real life

How did Mia react to the news?

She was walking on air all afternoon.

Play the conversation

I was walking on air after they offered me the job.

The mistake everyone makes

Not: I was walking in the air after the good news.

Say: I was walking on air after the good news.

The idiom uses “on air” to describe feeling extremely happy.

Build it

How it fits in a sentence.

walk on air; be walking on air

Your turn: say it out loud

I was walking on air after they offered me the job.

Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.

walk on air

feel extremely happy

“I was walking on air after they offered me the job.”

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