Maria was on cloud nine to see her husband back from a long business trip.The grandmother was on cloud nine to see her grandson after a long time.What a pleasure of winning, it makes feel like floating on cloud seven.I felt like I was on cloud 9 when she said that she I loves me a lot.She’s been on cloud nine since she heard the news of her engagement.It serves you right! Talking about people who deserve bad things.On cloud nine also, on cloud seven Meaning | Synonyms.Losing and breaking your heart (Heart senses and phrases, Part 2).Sobbing or pouring your heart out (‘Heart’ senses and phrases, Part 3).How to stay motivated during the pandemic: What you told us, and why it matters.Hairdryers and squeaky bums: the colourful world of football words.A few words on corpus linguistics part 2.I would love to know if your language has an equivalent saying for this. I lost my job in August but it meant I was able to spend more time with Millie. As often happens with sayings, we sometimes shorten this to just Every cloud…: I like to finish on a positive note! We use the saying Every cloud has a silver lining to mean that there is always a good aspect to a bad situation. He’d left office under a cloud the previous year after allegations of secret cash payments. If someone leaves a company or organization under a cloud, they leave with their reputation slightly spoilt because of something they have done: The only cloud on the horizon is that Dan’s job is looking less secure. These days I feel like I have a cloud hanging over me.Ī cloud on the horizon is something that threatens to cause problems or unhappiness in the future: We’ll spend some of it now on a nice holiday and save the rest for a rainy day.Ĭlouds feature mainly as things that spoil situations, so someone who has a cloud hanging over them feels unhappy and worried and is unable to enjoy the present: If you keep / save money for a rainy day, you save it in case something happens in the future that requires the money: I wasn’t going to rain on her parade and tell her that the award didn’t mean anything. To rain on someone’s parade is to do something that spoils their enjoyment of something good that they’re experiencing: I’ll be there, I promise, come rain or shine. He’s out there at six o’clock in the morning, rain or shine. We often use it to comment on someone who always does something, even when the weather is bad, and also for making a promise: The phrase (come) rain or shine means ‘in whatever weather conditions’. This means that bad things always seem to happen at the same time:Īmy lost her job on Monday and Alex broke his arm two days later. One that you hear a lot is It never rains but it pours (UK)/ When it rains, it pours(US). There are more idioms with the word ‘rain’. (It will not last forever.):Įveryone’s here so I think we should set to work and make hay while the sun shines. If you make hay while the sun shines, you make good use of an opportunity while it lasts. I’ve tried everything under the sun to get rid of that stain, but nothing seems to work. It’s often used with the verb ‘try’ in frustration: Starting with ‘sun’, the phrase everything under the sun means ‘everything that exists or is possible’. Today, we’re looking at idioms containing a wider range of weather – sun, rain and clouds. Previously, we focused on idioms with stormy words. This is the second of three blog posts on idioms that contain words relating to the weather.
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