happy, happy, joy, joy
- idiom
- Informal
:
feliz, feliz, alegría, alegría
- She danced around the room, shouting happy, happy, joy, joy after hearing she got the part.
Examples
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The good news had everyone singing happy, happy, joy, joy at the office.
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After the proposal, it was all happy, happy, joy, joy at their house.
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After the surprise party, everyone was feeling happy, happy, joy, joy and celebrating together.
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She jumped up and down, exclaiming happy, happy, joy, joy when she found out she won the lottery.
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The atmosphere was filled with happy, happy, joy, joy as the children opened their presents on Christmas morning.
Synonyms
185
6.0
A short shout people make to show happiness or excitement
43
1.4
A short shout to show excitement or happiness
5
7.4
A loud shout people make to show excitement or joy
5
2.6
A shout people make when they are happy or excited
2
8.7
A short shout people make to show excitement or happiness
Antonyms
How Happy
Surface Forms
Morphology
happy, + happy, + joy, + joy
The phrase is a simple repetition of the transparent lexical items 'happy' and 'joy' used for emphatic or playful effect; a B1 learner who knows 'happy' and 'joy' can readily infer that the phrase signals exuberant happiness or excitement. While ironic use depends on context, the core meaning of intensified happiness is directly predictable from the constituents and the reduplicative pattern.
Etymology
Happy, happy, joy, joy repeats the words happy and joy like a child singing a short, silly song to show extra cheer. That's why people use it to mean 'very happy' or to say someone is excited in a joking way.