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Proverb

After a storm comes a calm.


Actions speak louder than words.
Easier said than done.
All good things must come to an end.
COLLECTIVE NOUNS
PEOPLE
an army of soldiers
a bevy of beauties/girls
a band of musicians
a band of robbers
a board of directors
a body of men
a bunch of crooks
a caravan of gypsies
a choir of singers
a class of pupils
a class of students
a company of actors
a company of soldiers
a congregation of worshippers
a crew of sailors
a crowd of spectators
a crowd of people
a dynasty of kings
a galaxy of beautiful women
a galaxy of flm stars
a gang of crooks
a gang of labourers
a gang of prisoners
a gang of robbers

a gang of thieves
a horde of savages
a host of angels
a line of kings/rulers
a mob of rioters
a group of dancers
a group of singers
a pack of rascals
a pack of thieves
a party of friends
a patrol of policemen
a posse of policemen
a regiment of soldiers
a staf of employees
a staf of servants
a staf of teachers
a team of players
a tribe of natives
a troop of scouts
a troupe of artistes
a troupe of dancers
a troupe of performers
a party of friends

THINGS
an album of autographs
an album of photographs
an album of stamps
an anthology of poems
an archipelago of islands
a bale of cotton
a basket of fruit
a batch of bread
a battery of guns
a block of fats
a book of exercises
a book of notes
a bouquet of fowers
a bowl of rice
a bunch of bananas
a bunch of fowers
a bunch of grapes
a bunch of keys
a bundle of rags/old clothes
a bundle of frewood/sticks
a bundle of hay
a catalogue of prices/goods
a chain of mountains
a chest of drawers
a cluster of coconuts
a cluster of grapes
a cloud of dust
a clump of bushes
a clump of trees
a collection of coins
a collection of curiosities
a collection of pictures
a collection of relics
a collection of stamps
a column of smoke
a comb of bananas
a compendium of games
a constellation of stars
a cluster of diamonds
a cluster of stars
a clutch of eggs
a crate of fruit
a crop of apples
a fall of rain
a fall of snow
a feet of motor-cars/taxis
a hail of bullets
a hand of bananas each a fnger!
a harvest of wheat/corn
a heap of rubbish
a heap of ruins
a hedge of bushes
a heap of stones
a layer of soil/dirt
a library of books
a line of cars
a list of names
a mass of ruins/hair
a necklace of pearls
an outft of clothes
an orchard of fruit trees
a pack of cards
a pack of lies
a packet of cigarettes
a packet of letters
a pair of shoes
a pencil of rays
a quiver of arrows
a range of hills
a range of mountains
a ream of paper
a reel of thread/flm
a roll of flm/cloth
a rope of pearls
a row of houses
a series of events
a set of china
a set of clubs
a set of tools
a sheaf of arrows
a sheaf of corn
a sheaf of grain
a sheaf of papers
a sheaf of wheat
a shower of blows
a shower of rain
a stack of arms
a stack of corn
a stack of hay
a stack of timber
a stack of wood
a stock of wood
a feet of ships
a fight of aeroplanes
a fight of steps
a forest of trees
a galaxy of stars
a garland of fowers
a glossary of di"cult
words/phrases
a group of islands
a grove of trees

a string of beads
a string of pearls
a suit of clothes
a suite of furniture
a suite of rooms
a tuft of grass
a tuft of hair
a wad of currency/notes
a wreath of fowers

ANIMALS
an army of ants
a bevy of quail
a brood/fock of chickens
a catch of fsh
a cloud of fies
a cloud of insects
a cloud of locusts
a colony of gulls
a drove of cattle
a drove of horses
a fight of birds
a fight of doves
a fight of locusts
a fight of swallows
a fock of birds
a fock of geese
a fock of sheep
a gaggle of geese
a haul of fsh
a herd of bufaloes
a herd of cattle
a herd of deer
a herd of elephants
a herd of goats
a herd of swine
a hive of bees
a host of sparrows
a kindle of kittens
a litter of cubs
a litter of piglets
a litter of kittens
a litter of puppies
a menagerie of wild animals
a muster of peacocks
a nest of ants
a nest of mice
a nest of rabbits
a pack of hounds
a pack of wolves
a plague of insects
a plague of locusts
a pride of lions
a school of herrings/other
small a afsh
a school of porpoises
a school of whales
a shoal of fsh
a skein of wild geese in fight
a string of horses
a stud of horses
a swarm of ants
a swarm of bees
a swarm of insects
a swarm of locusts
a team of horses
a team of oxen
a train of camels
a tribe of goats
a troop of lions
a troop of monkeys
a #oo of wild animals

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