![]() May the Force be with us.(makes zizzing sound). I think he’s fishing with a longer pole.ġ. I hate the game!(hits him) I HATE THE DAMN GAME! DO YOU READ ME, GOVERNOR?ġ. My husband is out there risking his life for a bunch of stupid fish! 2. What do you want, courage for having the guts to walk in here? 2. Yeah, we’re Glochestermen but why go all the way to the Flemish Cap to prove it?ġ. Sulley, if you’re gonna play with the lightsticks, why don’t you stick them up your ass?ġ. (makes sound) The Force will be with us! 2. …If I’m going to catch up to you.ġ(holding out plate to passing crew member) Want a bite for the road? 2.(in heavy accent) No, T’anks, mam. Part 2 of this post will look at idioms with the weather words ‘cloud’ and ‘sun’, amongst other words.#1: There you go. Lightning never strikes twice means ‘it is unlikely that something bad or strange will happen twice to the same person or in the same place’. I told Jim she was coming, and he was out of the house like greased lightning! Meanwhile, if someone does something like greased lightning, they do it extremely quickly: To steal someone’s thunderis to do what someone else was planning to do before they do it, unfairly taking the attention or praise away from them: She walked into the office this morning with a face like thunder. In UK English, if someone has a face like thunder, they look extremely angry: Of course, we can’t talk about storm idioms without mentioning thunder and lightning. ![]() In 2019, she took the critics by storm with her debut album. Meanwhile, if someone takes something or someone by storm, they are suddenly extremely successful in a particular place or with a group of people: If you do something up a storm, you do it with great energy and skill:Īlex is cooking up a storm in the kitchen. Not all ‘storm’ idioms are negative, however. There was no way the business could survive. ![]() It was the perfect storm – a fire in the cafe, staffing problems and then the pandemic. The slightly strange phrase perfect stormrefers to a very bad situation caused by lots of bad things happening at the same time: In many ways, they weren’t the perfect partners for us, but any port in a storm, I guess. The phrase any port in a storm means that when you are in a very difficult situation, you will accept anything that seems helpful or attractive, even if it is not ideal: I suspect the government will weather the storm. The minister appears to have ridden out the storm. If you weather or ride (out) the storm, you survive a difficult period, without permanent damage, often to your reputation: In a couple of weeks, everyone will have forgotten what she said. US English has the equivalent phrase a tempest in a teapot: In UK English, we use the phrase a storm in a teacupto refer to a situation in which a lot of people express anger and shock over a matter that is not important. ![]() We’ve got 15 kids arriving for Joe’s party in ten minutes. Starting with those negative ‘storm’ idioms, we talk about the calm before the storm, meaning ‘a quiet, peaceful period before a time of great activity or trouble’: This post will focus on idioms related to storms, of which there are many! For example, a storm often features in idioms as something negative, referring to a period of trouble, and a cloud is something that spoils a situation. In many of these, the weather words are used metaphorically, in a way that makes the meaning quite obvious. It may not surprise you to hear that the weather features in a lot of English idioms. Sir Francis Canker Photography/Moment/Getty Images
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