somewhere over the rainbow
advEtymology Popularized from the song Over the Rainbow by Judy Garland, written by Harold Arlen (music) and E. Y. Harburg (lyrics) for the film The Wizard of Oz
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Idiomatic In an unknown, hypothetical, or very distant place.
- Perhaps somewhere over the rainbow there is a land where equality and justice are colorblind, where no one is the other, where no one by virtue of race, gender, or sexual orientation is an outcast or an anomaly.1996, Ann DuCille, Skin Trade:
- Somewhere over the rainbow Way up high, There's a land that I heard of Once in a lullaby1939, Judy Garland, Over the Rainbow: