Definition
In an unknown, hypothetical, or very distant place.
Origins
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
In Context
- "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."
- "Somewhere over the rainbow Way up high, There's a land that I heard of Once in a lullaby"