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up in the air

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up in the air (about someone or something)
Fig. undecided about someone or something; uncertain about someone or something. I don't know what Sally plans to do. Things were sort of up in the air the last time we talked. Let's leave this question up in the air until next week.
See also: air, up

up in the air
not decided or completely developed We have no idea which school she'll be attending in September - everything is still up in the air. Will a strike take place? That's up in the air.
Related vocabulary: leave something hanging
See also: air, up


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But bye and bye, as she stared ahead into the black chasm with a beating heart, she began to dimly see the form of the horse Jim--his head up in the air, his ears erect and his long legs sprawling in every direction as he tumbled through space.
Once up in the air, he sat close, in an ecstasy of fear.
Here were the Flushings talking, talking somewhere high up in the air above him, and he and Rachel had dropped to the bottom of the world together.
 
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