Cloud Nine

[Redguard]

I've first learned of this expression in Grade 3.

I got a Valentine's Day Card that said, "I'm on Cloud 9 because of you."

I didn't understand what it meant.

17 years later, I still don't understand.

What does "Cloud 9" mean as a romantic expression?

 

[LiberatedChick]

To be "on cloud 9" means that someone is extremely happy and filled with joy. So if I were to say "I'd be on cloud nine if I had a bar of chocolate" then basically I'd be saying I would be ecstatic if I had some chocolate. I've no idea where the term comes from.

 

[Evie]

I've first learned of this expression in Grade 3.

I got a Valentine's Day Card that said, "I'm on Cloud 9 because of you."

I didn't understand what it meant.

17 years later, I still don't understand.

What does "Cloud 9" mean as a romantic expression?

yeah,like your in love. (When you kiss that girl of your dreams and she takes your breath away)- your floating on Cloud 9. Is an exspression.

 

[Redguard]

I understand that it's an expression of love...

I'm just wondering what on earth the significance of the "ninth" cloud is? Why not the eigth or seventh?

And who is counting these clouds?

 

[MERCY@GRACE]

Maybe b/c cats have "9" lives? I dunno.....maybe your trying to hard to analyze it. I've never even thought of the number lol!

 

[LiberatedChick]

I understand that it's an expression of love...

I'm just wondering what on earth the significance of the "ninth" cloud is? Why not the eigth or seventh?

And who is counting these clouds?

This is what I found on phrases.org.uk

"The expression 'up on cloud nine' to describe a feeling of euphoric exaltation is based on actual terminology used by the U.S. Weather Bureau. Clouds are divided into classes and each class is divided into nine types. 'Cloud nine' is the cumulonimbus cloud that you often see building up in the sky in a hot summer afternoon. It may reach 30,000 to 40,000 feet, so if one is up on 'cloud nine,' one is high indeed. The popularity of 'cloud nine' as a catch phrase, though, may be credited to the 'Johnny Dollar' radio show of the 1950s. There was one recurring episode, like Fibber McGee's famous opening of the closet door. Every time the hero was knocked unconscious - which was often - he was transported to 'cloud nine.' There Johnny could start talking again." From "Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins" by William and Mary Morris (HarperCollins Publishers, New York, 1997).

 

[Silent Enigma]

When I was on a vacation with my parents when I was a kid we went to the appalacian mountains and the chalet we stayed at happened to be called "cloud 9".

See, I'm helpful.

 

[Redguard]

This is what I found on phrases.org.uk

Thanks Starelda!

Now I understand. People were so crazy back in the 50s...

 

[Evie]

I understand that it's an expression of love...

I'm just wondering what on earth the significance of the "ninth" cloud is? Why not the eigth or seventh?

And who is counting these clouds?

well your certainly funny,I'll give that to ya. Who knows why it's 9 and not 7 or 8?