Weather Idioms

To save for a rainy day.

• To keep your umbrella handy all the time.

• To buy something using a credit card.

• To put money aside for an emergency.

• To wait until it is raining to do something.

Every cloud has a silver lining.

• Clouds aren't always all grey or all white.

• Even in bad situations, something good can come from it.

• When a balloon is let go, it floats up to the clouds.

• Clouds contain the chemical Ag, which is silver.

Head in the clouds.

• Clouds that are big and fluffy.

• Someone who is in a good mood.

• A clear, sunny day with no clouds in sight.

• Someone who has their head in the clouds is a daydreamer.

Come rain or shine.

• Whatever the weather, it will happen OR someone who is reliable.

• Something that will happen inside so the weather won't affect it.

• Something that happens every day.

• A way to describe Spring.

A storm in a teacup.

• An expression that weather forecasters use to describe storms.

• When someone makes a big deal out of something that isn't important.

• A hot, frothy cup of tea.

• The amount of rain that a teacup holds.

To be snowed under.

• To have to dig your car out of snow.

• To have too many things to do.

• To have a good powder day for skiing.

• The opposite of being snowed over.

To break the ice.

• To make a smoothie or a slurpee drink.

• To scrape the winter ice off a car window.

• To say or do something that relaxes people.

• To make an ice sculpture.

To be under the weather.

• To not feel well.

• To go for a walk on a rainy day.

• To watch or read the weather forecast

• To feel very healthy.

The calm before the storm.

• The quiet period before things are expected to get very busy.

• A warm day in summer before a thunderstorm happens.

• When you fall asleep on a rainy night.

• The time in between two (or more) storms.

Right as rain.

• As reliable as the rain.

• Rain that is very heavy.

• To save money.

• To feel healthy.