somewhere over the rainbow
English
editEtymology
editPopularized from the song Over the Rainbow by Judy Garland, written by Harold Arlen (music) and E. Y. Harburg (lyrics) for the film The Wizard of Oz
Pronunciation
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Adverb
editsomewhere over the rainbow (not comparable)
- (idiomatic) In an unknown, hypothetical, or very distant place.
- 1996, Ann DuCille, Skin Trade:
- Perhaps somewhere over the rainbow there is a land where equality and justice are colorblind, where no one is the other, where no one by virtue of race, gender, or sexual orientation is an outcast or an anomaly.
- 1939, Judy Garland, Over the Rainbow:
- Somewhere over the rainbow
Way up high,
There's a land that I heard of
Once in a lullaby