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as happy as a clam at high tide

  • 1 clam

    1. n
    1) їстівний молюск

    as happy as a clam at high tide — дуже щасливий, задоволений; як риба у воді

    2) амер., знев. скупий, скнара
    3) амер. скритна, нетовариська людина
    4) удар у дзвони
    2. v
    1) збирати молюсків
    2) липнути, прилипати; заліплювати
    3) амер., розм. замовкнути, припинити розмову, відмовитися розмовляти; бути мовчазним
    4) ударити у дзвони, задзвонити
    5) припинити шум; примусити замовкнути
    * * *
    I [klʒm] n
    1) їстівний морський молюск; кoм., кyл. клем (промисловий молюск, крім устриці, мідії е гребінця)
    2) aмep. скнара
    3) aмep.; cл. рот
    4) потайлива, нетовариська людина
    6) aмep.; cл. долар
    7) aмep.; cл. помилка, промах; мyз. фальшива нота
    II [klʒm] v; амер.
    збирати або викопувати їстівних молюсків
    III [klʒm] = clamp I IV [klʒm] n V [klʒm] v
    задзвонити разом ( про дзвони); ударити в дзвони
    VI [klʒm] = clamminess

    English-Ukrainian dictionary > clam

  • 2 clam

    [klæm] 1. n
    1) їстівни́й молю́ск
    2) амер. розм. пота́йлива (нетовари́ська) люди́на
    ••

    as happy as a clam [at high tide] — ду́же щасли́вий; задово́лений; як ри́ба у воді́

    2. v
    1) збира́ти молю́сків
    2) ли́пнути, прилипа́ти
    3) амер. розм. бу́ти мовчазни́м (некомпані́йським); замо́вкнути

    English-Ukrainian transcription dictionary > clam

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  • happy as a clam — (as) happy as a clam (at high tide) extremely happy * * * (as) happy as a clam US informal : very happy She spent the afternoon reading and was as happy as a clam. • • • Main Entry: ↑clam (as) happy as a clam s …   Useful english dictionary

  • as happy as a clam — Meaning Origin The full version is as happy as a clam at high tide . Clams enjoy such times as they are free from the attentions of predators then. John G Saxe, the American writer best known for his poem The Blind Men and the Elephant , used the …   Meaning and origin of phrases

  • happy as a clam — (as) happy as a clam very happy. I am happy as a clam living all by myself in this little house by the sea. Etymology: based on the full form of the phrase happy as a clam in mud at high tide (= a clam that cannot be dug up and eaten, which… …   New idioms dictionary

  • Clam — For other uses, see Clam (disambiguation). Clam Edible clams in the family Veneridae Scientific classification Kingdom …   Wikipedia

  • high — adj 1. lofty, tall, elevated, steep, soarfrg, towering. 2. intensified, intense, potent; sharp, strong, forcible, of great force, violent, vigorous; of great number, of great degree, extreme, far advanced, remote, Music. altissimo. 3. expensive,… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

  • as happy as a clam — (as) happy as a clam very happy. I am happy as a clam living all by myself in this little house by the sea. Etymology: based on the full form of the phrase happy as a clam in mud at high tide (= a clam that cannot be dug up and eaten, which… …   New idioms dictionary

  • happy — (adj.) late 14c., lucky, favored by fortune, prosperous; of events, turning out well, from HAP (Cf. hap) (n.) chance, fortune + Y (Cf. y) (2). Sense of very glad first recorded late 14c. Ousted O.E. eadig (from ead wealth, riches ) and gesælig,… …   Etymology dictionary

  • lightsome — I adj 1. airy, immaterial, incorporeal, bodiless, light, weightless, vaporous, vapory; visionary, phantasmal, chimeral, ethereal, otherworldly, dreamlike; feathery, fluffy, gossamery, gossamer, light as a feather; Ariel like; buoyant, resilient,… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

  • rapturous — adj ecstatic, orgasmic, exalted, exhilarated, excited, enthusiastic, thrilled, elated, overjoyed; transported, ravished, enravished, enraptured, overcome; rhapsodic, blissful, in heaven, in seventh heaven, on cloud nine, happy as a clam at high… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

  • rhapsodic — adj 1. ecstatic, thrilled, exhilarated, enthusiastic, excited, elated, overjoyed, transported, ravished, overcome, orgasmic; rapturous, blissful, in heaven, in seventh heaven, on cloud nine, happy as a clam at high tide, happy as a pig in mud;… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

  • orgasmic — adj orgastic; ecstatic, exalted, exhilarated, excited, enthusiastic, thrilled, elated, overjoyed, transported, ravished, overcome; rapturous, rhapsodic, blissful, in heaven, in seventh heaven, on cloud nine, happy as a clam at high tide; beside… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

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