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Thrilled, delighted, as in Dean's in orbit over his son's success . This expression alludes to the successful launching into orbit of a satellite or other spacecraft. [ Slang ; late 1900s]Advertisement
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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