happy as the day is long

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1. Also, happy as a lark; happy as a clam (at high tide). Extremely glad, delighted, very cheerful, as in He was happy as the day is long, or When she heard the news she was happy as a lark, or Once I got the test results I was happy as a clam at high tide. The first of these similes dates from the late 1700s. The second alludes to the lark's beautiful, seemingly very happy, song. The third, from the early 1800s, alludes to the fact that clams can only be dug at low tide and therefore are safe at high tide; it is often shortened to happy as a clam.

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happy as the day is long

The narrator was now in Austria with a new and foreign husband, apparently as happy as the day is long.

From Anne by Woolson, Constance Fenimore

King Pierrot was delighted with Fiorimonde's beauty, and was happy as the day is long; and all things went merrily till the evening before the marriage.

From The Necklace of Princess Fiorimonde and Other Stories by Morgan, Mary de

But if only Billy, er Nick, er―” Mrs. Fogarty interrupted the little girl’s thoughts with the remark, “Now them ‘Asylums’ is just beautiful, honey darlin’–an’ you’ll be as happy as the day is long.

From A Sunny Little Lass by Raymond, Evelyn

He has entirely reformed, has become a member of a temperance society, and his wife and family are as happy as the day is long.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume I Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative by Various

I don’t say this isn’t grand, and that we oughtn’t to be as happy as the day is long in a place like this, but we didn’t come out here only to enjoy a hunting-party.

From The Peril Finders by Piffard, Harold