IDIOMS
As right as rain: to feel fine and healthy.
Sentence – You’ll be as right as rain as soon as you are back in your own home with your baby.
Be a breeze: to be very easy to do.
Sentence – Going down the hill would be a breeze after the long climb up!
Be snowed under: to have so much to do that you are having trouble doing it all.
Sentence – I’m snowed under at work right now because two of my colleagues are on holiday.
Break the ice: to say or do something to make someone feel relaxed or at ease in a social setting.
Sentence – I have to break the ice with a long pole before I can lower a bucket into water.
Calm before the storm: the quiet, peaceful period before a moment of great activity or mayhem.
Sentence – We cannot look back at the age of Johnson without sensing that it represents a period of calm before the storm.
Chase rainbows: when someone tries to do something that they will not achieve
Sentence – I think she’s chasing rainbows if she thinks she can get into Oxford with her bad grades.
Come rain or shine: you can depend on someone to be there no matter what or whatever the weather.
Sentence – Scores of rambling and cycling clubs headed remorselessly for the Dales each weekend, come rain or shine.
Every cloud has a silver lining: There is always something positive to come out of an unpleasant or difficult situation.
Sentence – Don’t be so grumpy and pessimistic every cloud has a silver lining.
Fair-weather friend: a person who is only your friend during good times or when things are going well for you but disappears when things become difficult or you have problems.
Sentence – She was a fair-weather friend because she wasn’t interested in me once I had lost my job.
Get wind of: to learn or hear of something that should be a secret.
Sentence – First it needs to boost its efforts to get wind of military-useful technology at an early stage.
Have your head in the clouds: to be out of touch of reality. Your ideas may not be sensible or practical.
Sentence – He has his head in the clouds if he seriously thinks he’s going to get a promotion soon.
It never rains but it pours: when things don’t just go wrong but very wrong and other bad things happen too.
Sentence – I invited my girlfriend to lunch and after we ate, I found I’d left my wallet at home. It never rains but it pours.
Put on ice: to postpone for another day.
Sentence – So, your first two donations are put on ice, and at the six-month mark, they’re unfrozen to check how they’re doing.
Ray of hope: there is a chance that something positive will happen.
Sentence – It is important to offer some ray of hope to the victims of this chronic and progressive disease.
Save for a rainy day: to save for the future when it might suddenly be needed (unexpectedly).
Sentence – Live within your means and save for a rainy day.
Steal my thunder: when someone takes attention away from someone else.
Sentence – Don’t wear that dress to the wedding; the bride won’t like it because you’ll be stealing her thunder.
Steal my thunder: when someone takes attention away from someone else.
Sentence – Don’t wear that dress to the wedding; the bride won’t like it because you’ll be stealing her thunder.
Take a rain check: decline something now but offer to do it at a later date.
Sentence – I was planning to ask you in for a brandy, but if you want to take a rain check, that’s fine.
