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Welcome to the A to Z English podcast.
My name's Jack, and I am one of the hosts of this podcast.
Today I'm doing a solo episode, and this is an idiom episode where I explain the meaning of one idiomatic expression in English.
And today's expression is walking on air or to walk on air, but we usually use it the expression walking on air.
I am walking on air.
And this expression is used to describe someone who is extremely happy, joyful, or elated.
Elated just means incredibly happy.
It conveys a sense of lightness and euphoria, as if the person is floating above the ground.
So I'm walking on air.
Sometimes when we're so happy, or if we've just completed some kind of task or met a goal, or for example, when you're a student in university or high school and you take a test and you get an a on your test, that feeling that you have when you walk out of the classroom where you feel like your feet almost aren't.
Your feet are almost not touching the ground, you're so happy, you're just floating, almost.
Your body is almost floating above the ground.
That's when we use the expression I'm walking on air because I'm just so happy.
It's almost like my feet are not touching the ground.
So here's an example sentence.
After receiving the job offer, he felt like he was walking on air for days.
So in this case, the person got a job, was offered a job, and felt so happy and so good about it that for several days he had, he or she had that feeling of almost floating.