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walk on sunshine

walk on sunshine verb: to be extremely happy.

Verb

walk on sunshine (third-person singular simple present walks on sunshine, present participle walking on sunshine, simple past and past participle walked on sunshine)

  1. (idiomatic) To be extremely happy.
    • That little girl we'd practically adopted made me walk on sunshine. There could be no option where she wasn't doing great. I wouldn't be able to handle it.2016, Bree Dahlia, Legal (An Older Woman/Younger Man Romance)
    • The time before the Third Round of qualifying, the summer of 2012, when the impossible seemed within their reach – this was the country at its finest. Bowers had enjoyed seeing the fruit of his efforts pay off as much as he loved watching his countrymen get swept up in his soccer passion....2014, Sean Reid, Love Thy Soccer: The Fan Rewrites the Book on the American Game

Forms of walk on sunshine

third-person singular presentwalks on sunshine
present participlewalking on sunshine
past participlewalked on sunshine
pastwalked on sunshine

Origin of walk on sunshine

Popularised by the 1983 Katrina and the Waves song Walking on Sunshine

Questions about walk on sunshine

What does walk on sunshine mean?
Walk on sunshine means to be extremely happy.
What part of speech is walk on sunshine?
Walk on sunshine is a verb.
What is the past tense of walk on sunshine?
The past tense of walk on sunshine is walked on sunshine.

Words near walk on sunshine in the dictionary

  1. walk on air
  2. walk on broken glass
  3. walk on by
  4. walk on eggshells
  5. walk on one's lower lip
  6. walk on sunshine
  7. walk on the wild side
  8. walk on water
  9. walk one's chalks
  10. walk one's shots
  11. walk out

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