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1 ♦ happy
♦ happy /ˈhæpɪ/a.1 felice; contento; lieto; fortunato: a happy marriage, un matrimonio felice (o fortunato); I was happy to see her again, fui lieto di rivederla; a happy idea, un'idea felice (o azzeccata); una buona idea; a happy coincidence, una coincidenza fortunata; una felice coincidenza; to be happy with (o about) essere soddisfatto (o contento) di2 (fam.) brillo; alticcio; su di giri (fam.)4 (arc.) esperto; ferrato● Happy birthday!, buon compleanno! □ (iron., del rito evangelico) happy-clappy, che (o chi) manifesta la propria fede cantando e battendo le mani □ (fig. scherz.) happy dispatch, harakiri □ happy ending, lieto fine □ happy event, lieto evento ( la nascita di un bimbo) □ the happy few, i privilegiati; i pochi fortunati □ happy-go-lucky, che prende il mondo come viene; spensierato □ (fam.) happy hour, periodo del giorno in cui le bevande ( al bar, ecc.) costano meno; happy hour □ a (o the) happy medium, il giusto mezzo □ DIALOGO → - Greetings and other useful phrases- Happy New Year!, Buon anno!; Felice anno nuovo! □ to be as happy as a dog with two tails, essere arcicontento; gongolare □ to be (as) happy as a king (o as a clam, as a lark, as a Larry, as a sandboy, as the day is long), essere felice (o contento) come una Pasqua □ to strike a (o the) happy medium, trovare il giusto mezzo (o un giusto compromesso) NOTA D'USO: - una grande soddisfazione-. -
2 sandboy
['sændbɔɪ]* * *['sændbɔɪ] -
3 sandboy sand·boy n
['sændˌbɔɪ]
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sandboy — ► NOUN (in phrase as happy as a sandboy) ▪ extremely happy or carefree. ORIGIN probably originally denoting a boy going around selling sand … English terms dictionary
sandboy — n. Phrases and idioms: happy as a sandboy extremely happy or carefree. Etymology: prob. = a boy hawking sand for sale * * * noun a young peddler of sand; used now only to express great happiness in happy as a sandboy • Regions: ↑United Kingdom,… … Useful english dictionary
happy — adj. (happier, happiest) 1 feeling or showing pleasure or contentment. 2 a fortunate; characterized by happiness. b (of words, behaviour, etc.) apt, pleasing. 3 colloq. slightly drunk. 4 (in comb.) colloq. inclined to use excessively or at random … Useful english dictionary
sandboy — /ˈsændbɔɪ/ (say sandboy) phrase happy as a sandboy, Colloquial extremely happy …
sandboy — noun a) A boy who sells sand Up and down the street not a child was to be seen. A sandboy with a donkey cart was the sole human arrangement in it. b) A proverbially happy or jolly person Drink always rubbed him the right way, and he would reach… … Wiktionary
happy — /ˈhæpi / (say hapee) adjective (happier, happiest) 1. characterised by or indicative of pleasure, content, or gladness: a happy mood. 2. delighted, pleased, or glad, as over a particular thing: to be happy to see a person. 3. favoured by fortune; …
happy — adjective (happier, happiest) 1》 feeling or showing pleasure or contentment. ↘willing to do or accept something. 2》 fortunate and convenient: a happy coincidence. 3》 [in combination] informal inclined to use a specified thing excessively or… … English new terms dictionary
happy as a sandboy — extremely happy … English contemporary dictionary
happy as a sandboy — Very happy. Very carefree … A concise dictionary of English slang
be as happy as a sandboy — be as happy as Larry/a sandboy British & Australian, American to be very happy and to have no worries. We married nine days after we met, and three years on we re happy as Larry. Since he s been at college he s as happy as a clam … New idioms dictionary
(as) happy as a sandboy (or Brit. Larry or N. Amer. a clam) — extremely happy. [prob. orig. denoting a boy hawking sand for sale.] → happy … English new terms dictionary