On 20 Apr 2000, 10:52, Kathleen wrote:
> At 06:17 PM 04/20/2000 +0000, Shashi Chopra wrote:
> >I wonder how the phrase 'Cloud Nine' was started and who was the first
> >person to coin this? Why 'Nine'?, why not some other number? Any site
> >to get the history of a phrase by Email?
>
>
> According to <http://www.quinion.com/words/qa/qa-clo1.htm>, my first
> guess was way wrong. Oh well, it made sense to me.
LOL...maybe the second guess was wrong, too. According to this
Sparkling Wine site, the expression goes back to Noah's Ark:
"It is reputed that the ninth pair of creatures to enter Noah's Ark was
two crows who loved to boast about 'a day on the grape'. They chattered
away in their top-of-the-ark nest crowing that the juice of the 'lubbly
bubbly' was like "us nines on clouds". This was the origin of the
expression "being on cloud nine".
http://sol.brunel.ac.uk/~richards/vineyards/bow.htm
So you see, when you are on Cloud Nine, you're just a drunk old bird.
<g>
Alan
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