Read the text ignoring the missing information and choose the idioms which correspond to the paragraphs. Then complete the text with the missing information
- related to various weather phenomena
- but promise to do it later
- which allowed them to come to the stadium on another day
- somebody was hiding something from him/her
- a period during which
- when the weather is usually calm and warm
Weather is one of the favorite topics of conversation in the UK and America. This is probably why there are so many idioms in the English language [ ]. Here are some interesting idioms connected with weather and the facts about their origin.
[To get wind of something|The calm before the storm|To take a rain check] This is said in the case when you cannot fulfill someone's request or accept the invitation now, [ ]. The expression appeared in America in the 19th century. Back in those days, baseball was one of the most popular sports among Americans. If the game was canceled due to bad weather, the audience was given rainchecks (tickets), [ ] and watch any other game.
[To get wind of something|The calm before the storm|To take a rain check]This idiom is used when a person learned some secret information or found out that
[ ]. This expression came from animals. Animals have a very delicate sense of smell, and this allows them to learn about the approach of predators or other dangerous animals at a large distance. To do this animals smell the air with their noses. So a person can 'smell' the information he needs in a figurative sense.
[To get wind of something|The calm before the storm|To take a rain check]It describes a quiet or peaceful time before [ ] there is great activity, argument, or difficulty. The origin of this English weather idiom is easily explained by common natural phenomena. Sailors came up with this expression, who noticed that the weather at the sea is always calm before the storm. We can also observe this phenomenon on land a few hours before a thunderstorm [ ].