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Head in the Clouds

   

Head in the Clouds




Meaning: 

Head in the Clouds means to daydream and be unaware of what is going on, to be absent-minded. It can also be used for someone who thinks illogically or in an abstract way.

Example:

“They got their head in the clouds today.”

“My brother has his head in the clouds if he thinks he is going to become an engineer because he is terrible at math.”

Origin:

This phrase is said to be started in the 1600s orally with no written history, the first written history for the phrase head in the clouds where it was used as an idiom was in a passage by Anna Bartlett Warner, in 1854 from The Glen Luna Family it read

“-with his head in the clouds as you say–go stumbling along over the obstacles which had accumulated through his abstraction, and hardly know what they were or how they came.”

Today we still use this idiom to express someone that daydreams and their mind seems very far away. They have ideas that are unattainable and are made up of dreams.





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