It was snowing hard there the other day. The snowflakes were big and light, and
the wind was making a few different snowdrifts. A lot of people like snow
because snow can make the landscape beautiful. For me too much snow makes
driving dangerous and in the NYC area, heavy snow can make the trains very
delayed, or not run at all.
Snow is frozen water vapor that falls to earth. We use the verb fall with
the noun snow and we also used the word snow as a verb:
- When snow starts
falling, you should get your shovel ready.
- Too much snow can
make driving dangerous.
- It snows a
lot in January in New York.
- It was snowing this
morning.
A flurry, snow flurries or just flurries means
a light amount of snow. The opposite is a blizzard, which is a
snowstorm that has a lot of wind. The word blizzard is also
used to mean an overabundance of something.
- It’s snowing, but just flurries.
- We are supposed to have snow flurries all
weekend.
- There is going to be a blizzard tomorrow.
- The boss came in to the
project room with a blizzard of information for us.
When there is a snowstorm, which prevents you from being able
to leave the house or neighborhood, you can say that you are snowed under.
This idiom, be snowed under, also means to be overwhelmed with
work or homework.
- Because of the blizzard,
we were snowed under. It took more than a day for
us to dig out.
- I can’t leave the office
early today. I’m snowed under with work.
Slush is partially melted snow, and slushy is the adjective form.
- The road was very slushy.
I had to drive slowly.
- When I stepped in the
slush, my shoes and feet got very wet
A snow job is a story or excuse which is untrue.
- Jack’s reason for coming
late was just a snow job.
- She gave me a snow job about
not having time to finish her homework.