Learn the English Phrases "the calm before the storm" and "to storm off"

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 5 degrees or something

and raining a little bit.

But this is the calm before the storm.

Later today, it's supposed to drop to -9.

And for the next week it's going to be

like minus 8 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. 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.

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 my...

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 then 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.