burst with joy



burst with joy

Fig. [for someone] to be full to the bursting point with happiness. (To be so filled with joy as if to burst.) When I got my grades, I could have burst with joy. Bill was not exactly bursting with joy when he got the news.
See also: burst, joy

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Addy (1)AD-eeEnglish
PiroskaPEE-rosh-kawHungarian
&Aelig;Thelthryth-Anglo-Saxon
Desiree[deizi:'rei]
Elizabethi-LIZ-ə-bəth (English)English, Biblical
RomyRO-meeGerman, English