, you must have heard this saying: The weather is necessary for chatting with foreign friends. A sentence "What's the weather like today?" can break the embarrassment of the first meeting. When chatting cold, a sentence "What a nice day!" can also save you.
However, what Xiaoer is going to talk about today is not how to chat, but how to use "weather" to chat-there are many phrases in English that can express our emotions and conditions vividly.
rain on one's parade
It’s your turn to parade but it’s raining, happy. I wonder if you got the meaning of this phrase? It is a drop, which means "disappointment".
Victoria, please don't invite Alan to the party. He's always rainning on my parade. Victoria, please don't invite Alan to the party. He is always disappointing.
What? Are you trying to rain on my parade again? What? Do you want to pour cold water on me again?
on cloud nine
Cloud nine is a term in the United States Meteorological Service, which means "cumulonimbus cloud". Since the "cumulonimbus cloud" is the highest in the clouds, cloud nine is also extended to "at the top of the world", which is used to describe a state of "very happy and very happy".
has such a sentence in the song Wide Awake of the fruit sister Katy Perry:
Falling from cloud 9 / Crashing from the high / I'm letting go tonight The phrase
get wind of sth.
means "know a certain news/secret".
I don't want my boss to get wind of the fact that I'm leaving so I'm not telling many people.
I don't want my boss to know that I am leaving, so ah, I did not follow Many people say this! The phrase
snow...under (with sth.)
means "too busy."
The high season snowed us all under with too much work.
peak season, heavy workload, busy!
I'd love to go to see the film with you if I'm not snowed under with work.
if I'm working I'm not so busy, I'm still happy to go to the movies with you.
have a face like thunder
Have a face like thunder and look like thunder both said that they look very angry.
What’s up with him today? He has a face like thunder!
What’s up with him today? Looks very angry.
Do you know what other phrases related to "weather", come and share with you~
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