2006-12-20 01:57:56 · 18 answers · asked by jennifer g 7 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
The phrase to be on cloud nine, meaning that one was blissfully happy, started life in the United States and has been widely known there since the 1950s; it's since spread worldwide. It's said to have been popularised by the Johnny Dollar radio show of that period, in which every time the hero was knocked unconscious he was transported to Cloud Nine. But that wasn't the origin of the phrase. It's been around since the 1930s, though early examples show a lot of numerical variability, with the cloud sometimes being as low as number seven or eight or as high as thirty-nine, though seven and nine were most common.
These discrepancies make me suspect the usual explanation of its origin, which is that it comes from the US Weather Bureau. The story is that this organisation describes (or once described) clouds by an arithmetic sequence. Level Nine was the very highest cumulonimbus, which can reach 30,000 or 40,000 feet and appear as glorious white mountains in the sky. So if you were on cloud nine you were at the very peak of existence.
In Danish the expression with the same meaning is called "Den syvende Himmel". To be in the seventh Heaven is to be at the top of the world.
2006-12-20 02:09:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because 7 8 9
Seven Ate Nine....it a memorial service...cloud nine is such a sad place when you get there bring back memories of when 9 use to live and be so happy and a Gae!
2006-12-20 02:00:05 · answer #2 · answered by ♥I know these things♥ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
have you seen the neighborhoods of 2-8?
9 is a great place to have a family...good schools
2006-12-20 02:00:15 · answer #3 · answered by silverback487 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
2-8's under construction, it will reopen as Motel 8, so stay at cloud 9 for now~~~~~~~~~~
2006-12-20 02:06:55 · answer #4 · answered by P-Nut 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The whole 9 yards.
2006-12-20 02:01:06 · answer #5 · answered by Nep-Tunes 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
cloud 9 - hmmmmm
2006-12-20 02:01:01 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
properly final time i became on the cloud smoking a cloud of cloudness and it became so cloudy because of the fact the cloud became making a cloud of clouds and it became making my claudia into santa clause like a calamity. It became a sturdy day.
2016-12-11 12:47:28 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is actually related to Islam.
People use that phrase, and in Islam, there are 9 levels of heaven, the 9th being the highest level.
2006-12-20 01:59:50 · answer #8 · answered by tellme 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because it was defined as the highest plane of the Heavens in Dante Alighieri's "Divine Comedy".(Inferno, Purgatory, Paradise).
2006-12-20 02:01:48 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the higher the level the higher the billy
2006-12-20 01:59:50 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋