Meaning of UNDER THE WEATHER - A Really Short English Lesson with Subtitles
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So in English when we say that we're under
the weather it means that we're not quite
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sick, but we're not feeling 100% either.
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We're kind of feeling somewhere in the middle.
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So we don't have a cold, we don't have the
flu, but we don't have as much energy as we
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normally would have.
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So you could say to someone, "I know we were
supposed to go out to eat tonight, but I think
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I might stay home because I'm feeling under
the weather."
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You could also feel under the weather after
you've been sick.
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So maybe you've had a cold for a couple of
days and you go back to work and someone says,
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"Feeling better?" and you could respond by
saying, "I'm feeling better, but I'm still
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feeling a little bit under the weather.",
which would mean that, you know, you're better,
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but not quite all the way there, not quite
100%.
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