Weather-wise

The questions below show how weather words have invaded our everyday speech. Each answer is a word or expression with some reference to the weather or sky.

1. A person who is no fun at all is a ____________________________________
   

2. When you are completely in the dark about something, you ______________ ______________________
   

3. When you ignore someone, you ____________________________________
   

4. Someone dreamy, romantic, sentimental is ____________________________
   

5. When a project gets bigger and bigger, it ______________________________
   

6. When you are not feeling quite up to par, you're _________________________
   

7. An offer to make something good at a later time _________________________
   

8. When you pursue illusory goals, or hopes, you're ________________________
   

9. When the audience likes a performance, they show it with __________________ __________________
   

10. Everything is absolutely correct. It's ____________________________________
    

11. When you feel that you'll never finish your work, you are ___________________ _________________
    

12. Someone who rants on and on is ____________________________________

ANSWERS

1. Wet blanket

2. Don't have the foggiest idea

3. Give him cold shoulder

4. Moon-struck; starry-eyed

5. Snowballs

6. Under the weather

7. A raincheck

8. Chasing rainbows

9. Thunderous applause or ovation

10. Right as rain

11. Snowed under

12. On cloud nine; floating on air; with your head in the clouds

13. A windbag

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