blue skies

[Jonathan Lighter]

I don't see this familar journalistic use in OED.

CNN tells "why the Dems see blue skies in Iowa."

An inspiring mixture of hope, happiness, tranquility, etc.

>From Irving Berlin's 1926 song of the same name.

JL

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