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| id | category | idiom | description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4601 | Weather | Cloud nine | If you are on cloud nine, you are extremely happy. (cloud seven is a less common alternative) |
| 4602 | Weather | Cloud of suspicion | If a cloud of suspicion hangs over an individual, it means that they are not believed or are distrusted. |
| 4603 | Weather | Cloud on the horizon | If you can see a problem ahead, you can call it a cloud on the horizon. |
| 4604 | Weather | Cold light of day | If you see things in the cold light of day, you see them as they really are, not as you might want them to be. |
| 4605 | Weather | Colder than a witch's tit | If it is colder than a witchs tit, it is extremely cold outside. |
| 4606 | Weather | Come rain or shine | If I say Ill be at a place come rain or shine, I mean that I can be relied on to turn up; nothing, not even the vagaries of British weather, will deter me or stop me from being there. |
| 4607 | Weather | Doldrums | If a person is in the doldrums, they are depressed. If a project or something similar is in the doldrums, it isnt making any progress. |
| 4608 | Weather | Down in the doldrums | If somebodys down in the doldrums, they are depressed and lacking energy. |
| 4609 | Weather | Dry spell | If something or someone is having a dry spell, they arent being as successful as they normally are. |
| 4610 | Weather | Every cloud has a silver lining | People sometimes say that every cloud has a silver lining to comfort somebody whos having problems. They mean that it is always possible to get something positive out of a situation, no matter how unpleasant, difficult or even painful it might seem. |
| 4611 | Weather | Face like thunder | If someone has a face like thunder, they are clearly very angry or upset about something. |
| 4612 | Weather | Fairweather friend | A fairweather friend is the type who is always there when times are good but forgets about you when things get difficult or problems crop up. |
| 4613 | Weather | Get wind of | If you get wind of something, you hear or learn about it, especially if it was meant to be secret. |
| 4614 | Weather | Go down a storm | To say that something has been enjoyable or successful, you can say that it has gone down a storm. Eg. Last nights party went down a storm, it was incredible. |
| 4615 | Weather | Greased lightning | If something or someone moves like greased lightning, they move very fast indeed. |
| 4616 | Weather | Head is in the clouds | If a person has their head in the clouds, they have unrealistic, impractical ideas. |
| 4617 | Weather | Hit rough weather | If you hit rough weather, you experience difficulties or problems. |
| 4618 | Weather | In a fog | If youre in a fog, you are confused, dazed or unaware. |
| 4619 | Weather | Into each life some rain must fall | This means that bad or unfortunate things will happen to everyone at some time. |
| 4620 | Weather | It never rains but it pours | It never rains but it pours means that when things go wrong, they go very wrong. |
| 4621 | Weather | Jack Frost | If everything has frozen in winter, then Jack Frost has visited. |
| 4622 | Weather | Know which way the wind blows | This means that you should know how things are developing and be prepared for the future. |
| 4623 | Weather | Made in the shade | One has an easy time in life or in a given situation. Finding things working to ones benefit. |
| 4624 | Weather | Not know enough to come in out of the rain | Someone who doesnt know enough to come in out of the rain is particularly stupid. |
| 4625 | Weather | Quiet before the Storm | When you know that something is about to go horribly wrong, but hasnt just yet, then you are in the quiet before the storm. |
| 4626 | Weather | Rain on your parade | If someone rains on your parade, they ruin your pleasure or your plans. |
| 4627 | Weather | Rainy day | If you save something, especially money, for a rainy day, you save it for some possible problem or trouble in the future. |
| 4628 | Weather | Right as rain | If things are right as rain, then everything is going well in your life. |
| 4629 | Weather | Sail close to the wind | If you sail close to the wind, you take risks to do something, going close to the limit of what is allowed or acceptable. |
| 4630 | Weather | Seven sheets to the wind | If someone is seven sheets to the wind, they are very drunk. |
| 4631 | Weather | Shoot the breeze | When you shoot the breeze, you chat in a relaxed way. |
| 4632 | Weather | Silly season | The silly season is midsummer when Parliament is closed and nothing much is happening that is newsworthy, which reduces the press to reporting trivial and stupid stories. |
| 4633 | Weather | Steal someone's thunder | If someone steals your thunder, they take the credit and praise for something you did. |
| 4634 | Weather | Stem the tide | If people try to stem the tide, they are trying to stop something unpleasant from getting worse, usually when they dont succeed. |
| 4635 | Weather | Storm in a teacup | If someone exaggerates a problem or makes a small problem seem far greater than it really is, then they are making a storm in a teacup. |
| 4636 | Weather | Take a raincheck | If you take a rain check, you decline an offer now, suggesting you will accept it later. (Raincheck is also used.) |
| 4637 | Weather | Take by storm | To take by storm means to captivate- eg. A new play that took New York City by storm. |
| 4638 | Weather | Tempest in a teapot | If people exaggerate the seriousness of a situation or problem, they are making a tempest in a teapot. |
| 4639 | Weather | Throw caution to the wind | When people throw caution to the wind, they take a great risk. |
| 4640 | Weather | Twisting in the wind | If you are twisting in the wind, you are without help or support - you are on your own. |
| 4641 | Weather | Under a cloud | If someone is suspected of having done something wrong, they are under a cloud. |
| 4642 | Weather | Under the weather | If you are feeling a bit ill, sad or lack energy, you are under the weather. |
| 4643 | Weather | Wait for a raindrop in the drought | When someone is waiting for a raindrop in the drought, they are waiting or hoping for something that is extremely unlikely to happen. |
| 4644 | Weather | Weather a storm | If you weather a storm, you get through a crisis or hard times. |
| 4645 | Weather | When it rains, it pours | This idiom means that when things go wrong, a lot of things go wrong at the same time. |
| 4646 | Weather | White as snow | If something or someone is as white as snow, they are perfect or completely uncorrupted and honest. |
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