Cloud Nine

Cloud Nine

Where the phrase comes from  ·  Card no. 4002

Often credited to a US Weather Bureau list that numbered cloud types, with the towering cumulonimbus at nine. That story is shaky. What is certain is that the phrase was seventh heaven and cloud seven before radio popularized nine in the 1950s.

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