over the rainbow prepositional phrase3 •Beyond one's grasp; impossible to reach or achieve.Even if it is finished and we have no souls, there may still be some higher order of intelligence out there, somewhere over the rainbow, or in a parallel universe we cannot see. — 2010 •The afterlife or the path a soul takes to reach the afterlife.Somewhere over the rainbow My son waits for me, There in the presence of our Heavenly Father He's as happy as can be. — 2012 •Extremely happy; thrilled.So when we landed in Rosedale that Saturday the 28th of June, we weren't in Toronto anymore, but only Grandma was over the rainbow to see us. — 2006
somewhere over the rainbow adverb1 •In an unknown, hypothetical, or very distant place.Somewhere over the rainbow Way up high, There's a land that I heard of Once in a lullaby — 1939