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Definition

In an unknown, hypothetical, or very distant place.

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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

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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"