2021-05-03 12:19:54
60+ RUSSIAN IDIOMS (NOT) ABOUT WEATHER (Part 1)
There are lots of idioms about the weather in Russian. I’ve tried to prepare a list that is as complete as it can be and includes English counterparts where possible. Enjoy, expand your vocabulary and don't forget to share with your friends!
Idioms with the word «погода»:
1. Делать/определять погоду - to be crucial in some matters (to make the weather)
2. Ждать с моря погоды - to wait idly for the situation to change (to wait for something to happen)
3. Погода шепчет - about a good, sunny weather
Idioms with the word «ветер»:
4. Быстрее ветра - to move or do something very fast (to run like the wind)
5. Ищи ветра в поле - about something difficult to find (you can't catch the wind in a net)
6. Как ветром сдуло - a phrase used to emphasize that something has disappeared (vanished into thin air)
7. Ветер в голове - about a frivolous, careless person (scatterbrain)
8. Бросать слова на ветер - to speak in vain, thoughtlessly and irresponsibly (to waste the words)
9. Держать нос по ветру - to stay out of trouble (to keep the nose clean)
10. (Желать) попутного ветра - to wish someone good luck (fair winds and following seas)
11. Знать, откуда ветер дует - to know the cause, the source of something (to see/know which way the wind is blowing)
12. Пустить по ветру/выкинуть на ветер - to thoughtlessly lose something (to throw away/to waste)
13. Ветер в карманах (гуляет) - a total lack of money (to be flat broke)
14. Ветер в ушах свистит - about moving fast (the wind whistles in the ears)
15. Ветром шатает/качает - about a person that is unable to walk steadily or is hardly able to stand still because of the weakness, old age, being drunk etc. (a good breeze could knock/blow him over)
16. Один как ветер в поле - alone, all by oneself, unaccompanied
17. Ветром надуло - about an unintended pregnancy, often accompanied by the absence of an alleged father (to get knocked up)
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