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Extremely joyful, delighted, ecstatic, or elated about good news or an achievement.
"She was over the moon when she opened the acceptance letter from medical school."
"The whole squad was over the moon after winning the championship trophy."
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Traced to the 16th-century nursery rhyme High Diddle Diddle ("the cow jumped over the moon"), popularized in British sports commentary in the 1970s.
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