English and ICT Skills for Life

Communicating In Social Contexts
Travelling | Weather idioms
As right as rain
to feel fine and healthy.

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Be snowed under
to have so much to do that you are having trouble doing it all.

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Break the ice
to say or do something to make someone feel relaxed or at ease in a social setting.

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Calm before the storm
the quiet, peaceful period before a moment of great activity or mayhem.

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Chasing rainbows
when someone tries to do something that they will not achieve.

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Every cloud has a silver lining
There is always something positive to come out of an unpleasant or difficult situation.

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He has his head in the clouds
to be out of touch of reality. Your ideas may not be sensible or practical.

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It never rains but it pours
when things don't just go wrong but very wrong and other bad things happen too.

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Put on ice
to postpone for another day.

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Ray of hope
there is a chance hat something positive will happen

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Safe for a rainy day
to save or the future when it might suddenly be needed

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Storm in a teacup
when someone makes small problem larger than it really is

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Be under the weather
not to feel very well

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