Idioms pt 3

weather stalking
To bolt from the blue (sky)
To be chasing rainbows To

have a face like thunder
Come rain or shine
To be snowed under
To be seven sheets to the wind To weather the storm
To be in a fog
To have a stormy relationship
To be living in Seattle
To know which way wind blows

saying goes down to the 17th century, in 1710 Jonathan

Swift described such an event in his satirical poem 'A Description of a City Shower‘

…Sweeping from Butchers Stalls, Dung, Guts, and Blood, Drown'd Puppies, stinking Sprats, all drench'd in Mud, Dead Cats and Turnip-Tops come tumbling down the Flood.

of chasing rainbows, meaning to pursue a “useless quest”, as

far back as 1450.
Science has always maintained that finding the end of a rainbow is impossible because it’s an optical illusion which requires a certain amount of distance from the viewer to be seen.
Norse mythology regards the rainbow as a bridge leading to Asgard, the land of the gods, while Irish legends claim a pot of gold can be found at the end of the rainbow, guarded by a leprechaun.

wrongly; lead astray
usually as a result of this, someone

(most often the fisheler himself) makes good money on it