up in the air

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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

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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. Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz by Baum, L. Frank View in context Once up in the air, he sat close, in an ecstasy of fear. The Night-Born by London, Jack View in context 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. The Voyage Out by Woolf, Virginia View in context More results

References in classic literature

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.

Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz by Baum, L. Frank View in context

Once up in the air, he sat close, in an ecstasy of fear.

The Night-Born by London, Jack View in context

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.

The Voyage Out by Woolf, Virginia View in context

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