... nine’, ‘on top of the world’, ‘over the moon’ and ‘thrilled to bits’). They are dealt with in respect of their grammatical features including the syntactic functions and morphology, and their semantic ... here denote the property of feeling the pleasure to the extreme degree; they, therefore, cannot be modified by intensifiers of degree such as ‘very’, ‘too’, ‘extremely’, etc [1]. They can function ... e.g.: They rejoiced in their good fortune. Another idiom of which ‘rejoice’ is a component is ‘rejoice somebody’s heart/ the heart of somebody’ meaning “make someone feel glad”, as in: The...