Idiom
happy place
Meaning
A mental visualization of a pleasant location, performed in order to avoid thinking or dealing with something unpleasant or painful.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“When I feel stressed, I go to my happy place.”
“During the long, boring meeting, she closed her eyes and visited her happy place to stay calm.”
“Faced with the overwhelming noise of the city, he retreated to his happy place, a quiet forest clearing he visited whenever reality became too difficult to bear.”
Examples
simple
“When I feel stressed, I go to my happy place.”
contextual
“During the long, boring meeting, she closed her eyes and visited her happy place to stay calm.”
complex
“Faced with the overwhelming noise of the city, he retreated to his happy place, a quiet forest clearing he visited whenever reality became too difficult to bear.”
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