Advanced Level >> Vocabulary Worksheets >> This vocabulary worksheet on weather idioms will put your students under the weather or maybe act as a silver lining for them.
Weather Idioms
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under the weather rain on someone's parade every cloud has a silver lining head in the clouds storm in a teacup get wind of something |
it never rains but it pours under a cloud hot under the collar blow hot and cold make heavy weather of something any port in a storm |
1. I only touched his new car and he went crazy. He is over-protective of it and made a real _____________.
2. He has been _____________ ever since he was caught cheating in the exam. Everyone looks at him strangely and it will take him a long time before he is trusted again.
3. If you are feeling a bit _____________, go and have a walk around the block, get some fresh air and try and calm down a bit.
4. Are you feeling a bit _____________? You have been looking a bit tired and ill since you arrived in the office this morning.
5. First the bank sent us that rude letter about our loan, then the house got broken into, then this morning John lost his job! _____________.
6. I can never tell what mood she is going to be in. She always _____________ and you have to be really careful around her.
7. When I lost my job three years ago, I felt so depressed but it is true that _____________: I started my own business and have been happier ever since.
8. We have hardly any money. You will have to accept any job they offer you because we need the money desperately. We have to accept _____________.
9. Your uncle was so happy about his new model car that he had finished but his wife turned round and really _____________ saying it was just a toy for kids.
10. It was only five miles to the next hostel but we _____________ of it due to the weight of the packs and took nearly three hours to get there.
11. I never knew about the chance of a new job at all. I only _____________ from Kathy who had overheard the managers talking at lunch in the staff canteen.
12. Daisy always _____________ - a real dreamer who finds it difficult to accept the mundane in life. She is a typical teenager!
