Exercise: weather idioms

Hello everyone,

Um dos assuntos mais corriqueiros sobre o qual conversamos é o tempo. Aprendemos expressões que fazem uso de vocábulos relacionados ao clima, em Weather idioms I, II, III, IV, V e VI. Deu para estudar? Hoje vamos finalmente praticar!

Match the idioms in bold type with their definitions. Relacione as expressões idiomáticas em negrito com suas respectivas definições.

1 – Why are you under the weather?

2 – I’m sorry man, but why are you still trying? She’s getting married tomorrow, just stop chasing rainbows.

3 – Wow, I think she’s making a storm in a teacup, she doesn’t need any help.

4 – I am snowed under with work.

5 – My sister has her head in the clouds if she thinks she is going to get rich, only working four hours a day.

6 – It was raining cats and dogs and the race was cancelled.

a – have too much work to do

b – trying to achieve the impossible

 

c – unrealistic or impractical ideas

d – feeling sick

e – raining very heavily

f – exaggerating the problem

Good job! I hope you are never snowed under with work like me! Hehehe…

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