somewhere over the rainbow

adv

Etymology

Popularized 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

Definitions

  1. In an unknown, hypothetical, or very distant place.

    • 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.
    • Somewhere over the rainbow Way up high, There's a land that I heard of Once in a lullaby

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for somewhere over the rainbow. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA