2014年9月23日 星期二

under a cloud, head in the clouds, have one's

in 1644 Bernini fell under a cloud...



A Laptop, Its Head in the Cloud

By DAVID POGUE
Google's Chromebook concept for laptops is built on the assumption that you can get online almost anywhere.




head in the clouds, have one's

Be absentminded or impractical, as in She must have had her head in the clouds when she made the reservations, because they never heard of us, or He'll never be able to run the business--he's always got his head in the clouds. This idiom uses in the clouds in the sense of "fanciful" or "unreal," a usage dating from the mid-1600s.


under a cloud


Under suspicion or discredited:he left under something of a cloud, accused of misappropriating funds

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