Even if the precise starting place of the expression isn’t identified, it dates again to the 16th or 17th centuries.
An early instance of the word can also be present in the 1641 e-newsletter “A Level-Participant’s Criticism” the place the “Over the Moon” is utilized in a an identical way as it’s in fresh contexts.
Some other most likely supply for the colloquialism is the fashionable nursery rhyme “Hiya, Diddle, Diddle” which first gave the impression in print 1760, alternatively, the beginning line of the rhyme was once the name of a well-liked dance in the 1590’s.
“Over the Moon” was once additionally incorporated in Charles Molloy’s 1718 play “The Coquet or The English Chevalier”.