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somewhere_over_the_rainbow

somewhere over the rainbow

English

Adverb

somewhere over the rainbow (comparative more somewhere over the rainbow, superlative most somewhere over the rainbow)

  1. (idiomatic) at 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