happy as a lark

happy as a lark
Very happy (sometimes with the extra connotations of being carefree or unaware of grimmer realities).

Shes happy as a lark with her ten dollar pay raise, even though the long-term prospects for the business are not good.


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  • lark — 1 noun (C) 1 a small brown singing bird with long pointed wings; skylark 2 informal something that you do to amuse yourself or as a joke, especially something bad: do sth for a lark: They hid her passport for a lark. 3 blow/sod etc that for a… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • happy — adjective 1 having feelings of pleasure, for example because something good has happened to you: Larry looked really happy when we gave him his present. | He was a happy child who rarely cried. | be happy to be doing sth: They felt happy to be… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • happy — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. fortunate, lucky; gay, contented, joyous, ecstatic; felicitous, apt; glad. See agreement, cheerfulness, pleasure, occasion. Ant., sad, II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [In good humor] Syn. joyous, joyful,… …   English dictionary for students

  • happy as a clam — adjective Extremely happy and carefree Syn: happy as a lark, happy as a pig in shit …   Wiktionary

  • happy — adj 1. delighted, glad, pleased, contented, gratified, satisfied; elated, well pleased, thrilled, tickled, Inf. tickled pink, pleased as punch, Dial. in hog heaven, Brit. Sl. chuffed; euphoric, on cloud nine, on top of the world, walking or… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

  • lark — 1. noun /lɑːk,lɑːɹk/ a) Any of various small, singing passerine birds of the family Alaudidae. b) Any of various resembling birds, usually ground living, such as the meadowlark and titlark Syn: whim, on a whim See Al …   Wiktionary

  • Lark (cigarette) — Infobox name = Infobox/doc above = Lark Cigarettes caption = Logo from a pack of regular Lark Cigarettesheaderstyle = background:#ccf; labelstyle = background:#zzz; datasytle = background:#ddf; bodystyle = background:#abcheader1 = Product… …   Wikipedia

  • Happy Drivers — Les Happy Drivers sont un groupe français de rockabilly, de psychobilly et de punk, créé en 1985. En mélangeant le punk, le hardcore et le rockabilly, les Happy Drivers ont été l un des rares groupes français à faire ce que l on pourrait appeler… …   Wikipédia en Français

  • happy as a clam/lark — very happy, carefree    When Tim is working on his car, he s happy as a clam …   English idioms

  • White lark — White White (hw[imac]t), a. [Compar. {Whiter} (hw[imac]t [ e]r); superl. {Whitest}.] [OE. whit, AS. hw[imac]t; akin to OFries. and OS. hw[=i]t, D. wit, G. weiss, OHG. w[=i]z, hw[=i]z, Icel. hv[=i]tr, Sw. hvit, Dan. hvid, Goth. hweits, Lith.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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