![]() ![]() And my god, I just remember thinking, my mind doesn’t work that well anymore. And an example of this, the most in a fog I’ve ever been in my life was after Stoney was born, when I was having very interrupted sleep. I was getting up three or four times a night, was having problems falling back asleep, I definitely had sleep deprivation. And when you’re in a fog or in haze, it’s sort of hard to think, hard to concentrate. In a fog, also called ‘in a haze’, so when it’s foggy or hazy, it’s hard to see. So that’s another great example of someone who has their head in the clouds. He’s supposed to be singing in this group of people and he’s just sort of “oh, wow! Look at that!” And I remember the director after concert yelling at this kid because during the concert, the kid was like so focused on the architecture of the building we were singing in, he was just taking it all in, looking around, and the director was you know trying to lead the choir in this cohesive sound, and he totally, this guy in general, has his heads his head in the clouds. I thought of one other example for ‘head in the clouds’, when I was in college, I was singing in a choir. They have schedules where they work evenings or weekends or whatever, but a nine-to-five is that typical traditional work schedule in the us. More and more people don’t have regular nine-to-five schedules. Now you said a nine-to-five. And that means a job that follows what in the us would be a regular work schedule, Monday through Friday, 8:00 or 9:00 in the morning until 5:00 or so in the afternoon. And those ten days my head, my head was in the clouds. I was excited, and I was having a really hard time concentrating on anything at work. Yeah, my example is that again, this is going back to birth but this is our son Stoney’s birth. I was working in a nine-to-five job and it was really hard to concentrate. I was so excited for Stoney to get here, and then he was ten days late. This is somebody who’s not focused on what’s happening, who’s sort of thinking about other things, not really paying attention. The calm before the chaos hosting and having a party of 120 people, feeding them all, and all that.Īnother great idiom ‘head in the clouds’. And remember how the venue was closed on Saturday? So we did all of this work on Friday and then Saturday was just this empty calm day before the big event on Sunday and that was sort of the calm before the storm. Another thing I thought about is we got married on a Sunday. It’s going to be supposed to be in six weeks, but it could be anytime.Īnd so our lives feel somewhat calm right now, but we know that a storm is coming. ![]() I think that right now you and I are in a calm before the storm. So ‘the calm before the storm’ means idiomatically, a period of relative calm right before something major and chaotic is happening. It’s actually a really neat moment, I think, when the skies are dark, before like hail starts pounding down from the sky or something. The calm before the storm. So sometimes when a storm is coming in, there’s this sort of eerie quiet before it really hits. To reach out means to initiate contact with someone. ‘Reach out’ what’s that mean? Was she like “ah! I’m reaching out!” It had been more than a year since I had heard from her and she reached out out of the clear blue. Right, and the thing that I thought of as an example was that a former colleague of mine reached out to me recently. I had actually been thinking about her,` she was on my mind, and she reached out out of the clear blue. So what it means is something unexpected. When something happens out of the blue, that’s relating to weather in that it comes from the idea of a clear blue sky, nothing in it, and then out of the blue, a storm comes in or something like that rather quickly. Now, a little pronunciation thing here, out-uh, you can hear, I’m taking out of, I’m putting those together into one word, out-uh, out of the blue, with a flap t. So today, you can expect to learn some brand new idioms that you’ve never heard before.ĭavid, let’s start with the idiom ‘out of the blue’. Hey guys! Today, I’m sitting down with my husband David and we’re going to go over some weather idioms. Americans use these idioms constantly in conversation! In this video I’ll break down how to use the most common idioms related to the weather. Learning idioms at a conversational speed is difficult. YouTube blocked? Click here to see the video. ![]()
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