Learn the English Phrases "the calm before the storm" and "to storm off"
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In this English lesson, I wanted to teach you the phrase, the calm before the storm. Now, you can use this literally to talk about the fact that there's going to be a storm later today, but it's actually quite calm and peaceful out here right now. And that's actually true. It's really warm outside. I'm just wearing a hoodie and a baseball cap. It's like five degrees or something and raining a little bit, but this is the calm before the storm. Later today, it's supposed to drop to minus nine,

And for the next week, it's going to be like minus eight or minus 10 every day. So it's going to be super cold. So this is kind of the calm before the storm. We use this in real life as well, though. Let's say you're a student and you have exams coming up in a week. Right now, it's the calm before the storm. It's peaceful now, but it's going to be really, really busy in just a little while. Maybe you have this at work.

You're working and it's just a nice day at work, but you know it's just the calm before the storm because a big project is due soon.

The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is to storm off. By the way, this is a repeat of a lesson from 2020. I think it's the first time I'm doing the same two phrases in the same lesson. I haven't done that before, but I really wanted to talk about to storm off. When you storm off, it means you're angry and you leave. So maybe you're in a store and you're like, you charged me too much for this. You...

I'm annoyed, and then you leave. That's probably not exactly how you would say it, but when you're angry and you're so angry you leave the situation, we say that you storm off. So he was so angry that he stormed off. So to review, the calm before the storm is any time of peace and calm before something bad happens or something,

more intense happens. And to storm off means to leave a situation because you are not happy. But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Pedro. It looks like you guys are getting more snow than last year, Bob. Love to see it. My response, we have a bit.

I hope we get more. So we'll see. Thanks for the comment, Pedro. We have had more snow than last year. I think at this time last year, it was, I think it was kind of warm out last year, but we'll have to see what actually happens the next few days. It's supposed to get really cold, like I said, but I don't know if we're going to get a lot of snow. I really hope we do.

I don't enjoy this. I like seeing everything white in the winter. I don't like it when I can see my lens is getting raindrops on it. There should be snowflakes falling out of the sky. But hey, it's just the way it goes. You can see down here on the driveway,

We have a little bit of ice underneath water and that's actually quite slippery. But I think this will all probably melt today before the temperature starts to drop. We'll have to see. Who knows?

The other thing I don't like about this is when it goes from wet to really cold, it can be quite dangerous to drive on the roads because the rain hits the road and then when it freezes, it forms a layer of ice. And that's just not nice. I'd rather drive in snow than in ice. I'm not sure if all of you are aware of the difference. When you drive in snow, you slip and slide a little bit

When you drive on ice, it's really, really slippery. Like I'd rather drive on a road that's packed down with snow than drive on a road that is icy. Ice is just super, super dangerous. So we'll see how it goes. Right now, as you see this car go by, they're just driving in the rain.

Pretty safe to drive in the rain, but in a few hours, I think around midnight tonight, it's really going to start to drop. So anyways, thanks for watching. On a Saturday, I'll see you in a few days with another short English lesson. Bye. Hi, Bob the Canadian here. Thank you for listening to this English podcast lesson. If you would like to support me in the work that I do as an online English teacher, please visit patreon.com slash bobthecanadian.