in the air

Meaning

1. Editorial75% of films

   Physically located in, or moving through, the air; off the ground or airborne (including hands raised overhead).

2. Oxford20% of films

   felt by a number of people to exist or to be happening

In the movies · 95

• Smoke in the air! Smoke in the air!Top Gun: Maverick2022
• Red Five is in the air.Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker2019
• The ball is in the air, just out of the left...Stranger Than Paradise1984
• In the air?In the Heights2021
• in the air.The Menu2022
• Get us in the air.Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets2002
• They're already in the air.United 932006
• Put your hands in the air!Baby Driver2017

Learn it in full scenes

• The Menu2022
  • Guests Board the Boat to Hawthorn
  • Tyler Explains Why Chefs Are Artists
  • Slowik Serves the Island Course
• United 932006
  • Passengers Board United 93
  • The FAA Morning Briefing
  • A Controller Reports a Possible Hijack

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• up in the air
• a breath of air
• castles in the air
• clear the air
• with your nose in the air
• pluck out of the air
• disappear, vanish, into thin air
• out of thin air
• air out