English for Everybody - Intermediate Course
not under the weather

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Idioms

 

Still more idioms of weather. Match these weather idioms with their meanings

  1. A fair-weather friend

  2. To sail close to the wind

  3. Save something for a rainy day

  4. May hay when the sun shines

  5. It never rains but it pours

  6. Choose any port in a storm

  7. Have your head in the clouds

 

  1. Make the most of something good while you can    
  2. Someone who will be with you only when things are going well    
  3. When you are in bad trouble, take help wherever you can find it    
  4. Having ideas and thoughts that don't work in the real world    
  5. To get right to the edge of what is allowed or legal    
  6. If things are bad, expect something else bad to happen too    
  7. To keep things on one side until you really need them    
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