walk on sunshine

English

Etymology

Popularised by the 1983 Katrina and the Waves song Walking on Sunshine

Pronunciation

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Verb

walk on sunshine (third-person singular simple present walks on sunshine, present participle walking on sunshine, simple past and past participle walked on sunshine)

1. (idiomatic) To be extremely happy.
   • 2016, Bree Dahlia, Legal (An Older Woman/Younger Man Romance):

     That little girl we'd practically adopted made me walk on sunshine. There could be no option where she wasn't doing great. I wouldn't be able to handle it.

   • 2014, Sean Reid, Love Thy Soccer: The Fan Rewrites the Book on the American Game:

     The time before the Third Round of qualifying, the summer of 2012, when the impossible seemed within their reach – this was the country at its finest. Bowers had enjoyed seeing the fruit of his efforts pay off as much as he loved watching his countrymen get swept up in his soccer passion. Regardless of the outcome, he and the island's small set of believers were walking on sunshine.

   • 1999, Nirupamā Baragohāñi, Abhiyatri:

     They praised her work in Assam so profusely that she walked on sunshine for a few days. However, the heady experience of Karachi was followed by a miserable phase of Daisingari.