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Cloud, Clouds

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He is in the clouds. In dreamland, entertaining visionary notions; having no distinct idea about the matter in question.

He is under a cloud. Under suspicion, in disrepute.

To blow a cloud is to smoke a cigar or pipe.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Clorinda (in Jerusalem Delivered)
Close as a Clam
Close Rolls
Close-time for Game
Closh (Mynherr)
Cloten
Cloth (The)
Clotharius
Clotho
Cloud, Clouds
Cloud
Cloud (St.)
Clouded Cane (A)
Cloven Foot
Clover
Clowns
Club
Club-bearer (The)
Club-land
Club-law