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Idioms about weather

1. Come rain and shine


Meaning: Do regularly, whatever the circumstances.
Example: I listen to the music every day, come rain or shine.
2. On cloud nine
Meaning: To be extremely happy.
Example: I was on cloud nine when I won the competition.
3. Brainstorm
Meaning: To generate many ideas quickly.
Example: Before writing, our teacher asked us to brainstorm the topics for essays.
4. Take sth by storm
Meaning: To overwhelm s.one or s.thing by becoming famous quickly.
Example: The writer has taken the literary world by storm.
5. Stealing my thunder
Meaning: Making people pay attention to you.
Example: I didn't mean to steal your thunder, but I just had to tell your mom about your
promotion.
6. A cold day in July
Meaning: This idiom is something that will never occur.
Example: It will be a really cold day in July if we get to win the quiz competition.
7. Take a rain check
Meaning: Decline an invitation but maybe you will accept it another time.
Example: No thanks. I’ll take the rain check. Enjoy the party!
8. A ray of sunshine
Meaning: Something that brings happiness to someone.
Example: If someone is a ray of sunshine, they bring a positive mood with them or make other
people happy, in the same way as a real ray of sunshine.
9. Once in a blue moon
Meaning: Very rarely.
Example: He has very little contact to his family. He came home once in a blue moon.

Weather idioms
● To get a frosty reception.

He seems a nice enough chap, but he gets a frosty reception from the gang.

● My mind is in a fog.

Indeed, brain fog, muscle aches, and fatigue are some of the most common symptoms of the
nebulous condition called long COVID, which experts think affects as many as one in five
Americans who survived the relatively new virus.

● To steal somebody's thunder.

If you steal someone's thunder, you get the attention or praise that they thought they would
get, usually by saying or doing what they had intended to say or do.

● To have a face like thunder.

He burst into the room with a face like thunder.

● To be as right as rain.

After a few days of rest, you'll be right as rain again.

● It never rains but it pours.

The team not only lost the game but three of its best players were injured. It never rains but it
pours.

Idioms about summer


head in the clouds
1. If you say that someone has their head in the clouds, you are criticizing them because they
are ignoring or are unaware of the problems associated with a situation.
soak up some sun
2. If you soak up the sun, you sit or lie in the sun, because you enjoy it.
to have a green thumb
3. Those with a green thumb may be intrigued by the conservatory that is currently being used
as a greenhouse, while want-to-be sommeliers will love the wine room that holds more than
300 bottles.
daydreaming
4. Instead of studying, he spent the afternoon daydreaming about his vacation.
social butterfly
5. She used to be quite the social butterfly, but no one has heard from Sarah in weeks.
the dog days
6. Short of moving to the beach, the best defense to a case of dog days malaise is to chill your
wines and chill with friends.
summer fling
7. I guess I just thought we had something special, but all she was looking for was a summer
fling.
thrown of the deep end
8. Teachers are thrown in the deep end when they first start teaching.
be full of hot air
9. Oh, you can't believe a word that guy says—he's full of hot air.
full of nonsense
10. If you say that something spoken or written is nonsense, you mean that you consider it to
be untrue or silly.

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