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up in the air

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. up in the airadjective

    very uncertain

    "left everything up in the air"

  2. up in the airadjective

    not yet determined

    "plans are still up in the air"

Wiktionary

  1. up in the airadverb

    up in or into the sky or air.

  2. up in the airadjective

    Not yet resolved, finished, answered, decided or certain.

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  1. up in the air

    "Up in the air" is a phrase usually used to denote a situation or matter that is unresolved, uncertain, or undecided. The outcome or final status is not yet determined and may be the subject of further consideration or negotiation. It implies a lack of control over the outcome and that various possibilities still exist.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of up in the air in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of up in the air in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of up in the air in a Sentence

  1. Henrik Ibsen:

    Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build, too.

  2. John McCain:

    Air strikes disconnected from a broader strategy may be necessary, but they alone will not achieve U.S. objectives in the Middle East.

  3. Dmitry Peskov:

    Our air force operation is continuing in Syria, it is not a secret for anyone that the continuing mingling in places of the so-called moderate opposition with Al-Nusra is a really serious problem.

  4. The Navy:

    There have been a number of reports of unauthorized and/or unidentified aircraft entering various military-controlled ranges and designated air space in recent years, for safety and security concerns, the Navy and the [U.S. Air Force] takes these reports very seriously and investigates each and every report.

  5. Longfellow:

    How absolute and omnipotent is the silence of the night! And yet the stillness seems almost audible. From all the measureless depths of air around us comes a half sound, a half whisper, as if we could hear the crumbling and falling away of the earth and all created things in the great miracle of nature?decay and reproduction?ever beginning, never ending?the gradual lapse and running of the sand in the great hour-glass of Time.


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