on air

1. 1.

   very happily

   “we were floating on air at the news”

Questions about on air

What does on air mean?

on air means "very happily".

Is on air a common word?

on air is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.