blue skies
Optimist's daily forecast
Blue skies describes conditions that are optimistic, untroubled, or free of obstacles.
The phrase draws on clear weather as a metaphor for favorable circumstances: blue skies ahead for the economy.
In business and research contexts, blue-sky thinking or blue-sky research refers to imaginative, unconstrained speculation without immediate practical application: The team spent the retreat on blue-sky brainstorming.
Blue-sky laws regulate securities to protect investors from fraud.
- sunshineDirect rays from above
- sunny daysPeriods of clear skies
- cloudsAirborne water masses
- clearWithout obstruction or fog
- horizonApparent earth-sky meeting
sunny · bright · cheerful · optimism · thinking ahead · smooth sailing · fair weather · freedom · wide open · soaring · endless · nothing but · azure · cerulean · heaven · cloud nine · vast · birds
- skiesclouds, night sky, heavens, firmament, cloudscapes
- high pressureanticyclone, ridge, barometric pressure, isobars, isobar
- MediterraneanMediterranean Sea, olive grove, olive tree, olive, Aegean Sea
- ProvenceAvignon, Provence, Marseille, lavender, lavender fields
- peace symbolspeace sign, olive branch, peace dove, dove, white dove
blue skiesovercast
Sky fully veiled
storm clouds · gray skies · cloudy skies · dark clouds · thunderclouds
blue skiesdark clouds
storm clouds · gathering storm · doom and gloom · gathering clouds · rough seas
blue, skies, bluer, bluest, bluish, blueness, blues, blued, bluing