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up in the air



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Idioms and Phrases

Not settled, uncertain, as in The proposal to build a golf course next to the airport is still up in the air . This metaphoric expression likens something floating in the air to an unsettled matter. Put as in the air from the mid-1700s, it acquired up in the first half of the 1900s.
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The ball pops up in the air and soars into an arc, drifting against the blue sky, then comes down with a plunk on the glass wall behind Jon Guerra.

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Pearson: I would be playing piano, and Jeremiah would be walking in, playing a saxophone up in the air.

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Curtis said that the question of Social Security's long-term solvency is very much up in the air and advocated for addressing the problem sooner rather than later.

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“I remember I just threw both hands up in the air like if I had just been boxing 12 rounds and it was the knockout I had been looking for.”

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He agreed we could make a plan to talk “later,” sometime after the restaurant closed escrow, which was still up in the air.

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