15 trendy English phrases to express your emotion better

By India Today Web Desk: What would you reply if someone asks you about your current mood? You will say Happy, sad or angry. But do you really think that it’s enough to describe your mood? How would describe an extremely amazing vacation? As a ‘happy one’? But for how many times you can use happy. The word will lose its meaning. You can use the parse ‘over the moon’ to express happiness and do justice in expressing your emotion.

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There are plenty of words which you can use to express your current form of emotion. It will help you in describing your entire range of emotions. It will help ever others to know exactly how you feel. So for you here are some trendy English phrases which you can use to express your entire range of emotions.

Happy

1. Flying high:

• Meaning: Very happy

Eg: She’s flying high after the successful interview.

2. Pumped up

• Meaning: Very excited about something

Eg: He’s pumped up for his first salary.

3. Fool’s paradise:

• Meaning: A situation when someone is happy because they’re ignoring a problem or fail to realize its existence.

Eg: You must be in a fool’s paradise if you think that it will rain at the time of such hot summers.

Sad

4. Be down in dumps:

• Meaning: To feel unhappy or without hope

Eg: She’s a bit down in the dumps because she’s got to take her exams again.

5. Be at the end of your rope

• Meaning: To feel very upset because you’re no longer able to deal with a difficult situation

Eg: Sounds like you are at the end of your rope.

6. Grief-stricken

• Meaning: Extremely sad.

Eg: After his wife died in a car accident, he was left grief-stricken.

Angry

7. Bite someone’s head off:

• Meaning: To respond with anger to someone

Eg: I asked him one simple question and he bit my head off.

8. Black mood:

• Meaning: To be irritable, angry or depressed.

Eg: She’s scared to ask for the weekend trip as her mother is in a black mood today.

9. Drive up the wall:

• Meaning: To annoy or irritate someone.

Eg: His tuneless singing and drumming on the table drive me up to the wall.

Scared

10. Have/get/feel butterflies in your stomach:

• Meaning: To experience the anxiety, generally before when you are going to do something

Eg: The bride had butterflies in her stomach as she got ready to walk down the aisle.

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11. Afraid of your own shadow:

• Meaning: To be very frightened (so frightened you’d jump if you saw your own shadow in the light).

Eg: Sometimes the people who appear to be the most confident are actually afraid of their own shadows.

12. Petrified of:

• Meaning: Extremely frightened, especially so that you cannot move or decide what to do.

Eg: The thought of us residing in utter blindness petrified me!

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13. Feel out of it:

• Meaning: To not feel in a state of one’s normal mind.

Eg: He just woke up from a night of heavy drinking and felt so out of it.

14. Puzzle over:

Meaning: To think carefully about someone or something for a long time and try to understand them.

Eg: They puzzled over the question for quite a while.

15. Ambivalent about:

Meaning: Feeling two different things about someone or something at the same time, for example, that you like them and dislike them.

Eg: She is ambivalent to many things that may seem horrific to the reader.

Read: List of words with alternate spellings

Read: 40 Latin words to make your normal conversations really interesting

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