happy as a clam — (as) happy as a clam (at high tide) extremely happy * * * (as) happy as a clam US informal : very happy She spent the afternoon reading and was as happy as a clam. • • • Main Entry: ↑clam (as) happy as a clam s … Useful english dictionary
as happy as a clam — Meaning Origin The full version is as happy as a clam at high tide . Clams enjoy such times as they are free from the attentions of predators then. John G Saxe, the American writer best known for his poem The Blind Men and the Elephant , used the … Meaning and origin of phrases
happy as a clam — (as) happy as a clam very happy. I am happy as a clam living all by myself in this little house by the sea. Etymology: based on the full form of the phrase happy as a clam in mud at high tide (= a clam that cannot be dug up and eaten, which… … New idioms dictionary
Clam — For other uses, see Clam (disambiguation). Clam Edible clams in the family Veneridae Scientific classification Kingdom … Wikipedia
high — adj 1. lofty, tall, elevated, steep, soarfrg, towering. 2. intensified, intense, potent; sharp, strong, forcible, of great force, violent, vigorous; of great number, of great degree, extreme, far advanced, remote, Music. altissimo. 3. expensive,… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
as happy as a clam — (as) happy as a clam very happy. I am happy as a clam living all by myself in this little house by the sea. Etymology: based on the full form of the phrase happy as a clam in mud at high tide (= a clam that cannot be dug up and eaten, which… … New idioms dictionary
happy — (adj.) late 14c., lucky, favored by fortune, prosperous; of events, turning out well, from HAP (Cf. hap) (n.) chance, fortune + Y (Cf. y) (2). Sense of very glad first recorded late 14c. Ousted O.E. eadig (from ead wealth, riches ) and gesælig,… … Etymology dictionary
lightsome — I adj 1. airy, immaterial, incorporeal, bodiless, light, weightless, vaporous, vapory; visionary, phantasmal, chimeral, ethereal, otherworldly, dreamlike; feathery, fluffy, gossamery, gossamer, light as a feather; Ariel like; buoyant, resilient,… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
rapturous — adj ecstatic, orgasmic, exalted, exhilarated, excited, enthusiastic, thrilled, elated, overjoyed; transported, ravished, enravished, enraptured, overcome; rhapsodic, blissful, in heaven, in seventh heaven, on cloud nine, happy as a clam at high… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
rhapsodic — adj 1. ecstatic, thrilled, exhilarated, enthusiastic, excited, elated, overjoyed, transported, ravished, overcome, orgasmic; rapturous, blissful, in heaven, in seventh heaven, on cloud nine, happy as a clam at high tide, happy as a pig in mud;… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
orgasmic — adj orgastic; ecstatic, exalted, exhilarated, excited, enthusiastic, thrilled, elated, overjoyed, transported, ravished, overcome; rapturous, rhapsodic, blissful, in heaven, in seventh heaven, on cloud nine, happy as a clam at high tide; beside… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
