Collocations for "happy"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "happy" in context.
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happy
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.adj
- a happy [child, family, couple, customer, wife]
- happy birthday (to you)!
- Happy [Thanksgiving, New Year, holidays, Halloween]!
- a happy [occasion, atmosphere, event]
- was a happy [accident, coincidence]
- a happy [ending, solution] (to)
- happy [hours, times, days, shopping]
- spent many happy [hours] [there, reminiscing]
- in a happy [mood, frame of mind]
- [sing, whistle, hum] a happy tune
- was (not) happy with her [salary, lot, life]
- are you happy with that?
- happy (that) you [like it, think so]
- is happy about [having, learning, being offered]
- [I could never, how can you] be happy knowing (that)
- am [really, genuinely, very] happy for her
- was happy to [read, see, learn, find, get]
- would be happy to [meet, help, take] you
- [have, has, had] never been happier
- is the happiest I have seen you in [years, ages]
- slang: happy [slapping, slappers]
- [very, wildly, deliriously, so, not] happy
- UK: and they [were, lived] happy ever after
- [trigger, gadget, slap] -happy
'happy' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Halloween
- accident
- accommodate
- advise
- altogether
- appetizer
- be
- belated
- birthday
- blissful
- both
- carefree
- cheerful
- childhood
- choice
- clover
- content
- couple
- customer
- discuss
- drink
- ending
- entirely
- exist
- express
- extremely
- facade
- face
- feel
- forever
- glad
- glass
- healthy
- help
- holiday
- hour
- indeed
- introduce
- joyful
- key
- lately
- life
- long
- lot
- lover
- marriage
- medium
- naturally
- not
- only