Weather idioms

Answers in this topic

• What does ‘take a rain check’ mean?
• What does ‘get wind of’ mean?
• What does ‘snowed under’ mean?
• What does ‘a bolt from the blue’ mean?
• What does ‘have your head in the clouds’ mean?
• What does ‘on cloud nine’ mean?
• What does ‘steal someone's thunder’ mean?
• What does ‘come rain or shine’ mean?
• What does ‘a storm in a teacup’ mean?
• What does ‘chase rainbows’ mean?
• What does ‘a fair-weather friend’ mean?
• What does ‘weather the storm’ mean?
• What does ‘the calm before the storm’ mean?
• What does ‘every cloud has a silver lining’ mean?
• What does ‘under the weather’ mean?

Questions

Where do the origins for weather idioms come from?

Origins on this page are drawn from public-domain reference works, primarily Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898). Where the origin is disputed or unknown, the entry says so plainly.

Are these idioms still in modern use?

Most are in everyday English; a few are chiefly literary or old-fashioned, and those are flagged in the usage notes.