Phrase info

to the moon

Speech parts

1. to the moon - Interjection

2. to the moon - Phrase

Meaning

(dated) To a very distant or unreachable place.

(dated) Used as an intensifier
When I saw him, he was wired to the moon. He didn't come down for two days.

(slang) Towards prosperity and greatness.

to the moon

(cryptocurrencies, slang) An aspirational or rallying call for confidence that the value of a cryptocurrency will greatly increase in the future.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream. Neil Armstrong

Youth gets together with their materials to build a bridge to the moon or maybe a palace on earth then in middle age they decide to build a woodshed with them instead. Henry David Thoreau

If the cells and fibres in one human brain were all stretched out end to end, they would certainly reach to the moon and back. Yet the fact that they are not arranged end to end enabled man to go there himself. The astonishing tangle within our heads makes us what we are. Colin Blakemore

After a while the press of business in the province put an end to our philosophizing, and I returned with increased determination to my plans to fly to the Moon. Cyrano de Bergerac

Today my winged horse is coming and I am carrying you off to the moon and on the moon we will eat rose petals. Shirley Jackson

The stars up close to the moon were pale; they got brighter and braver the farther they got out of the circle of light ruled by the giant moon. Ken Kesey

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