It’s freezing out there!
Do you like cold weather? Are you a fan of the winter? For today’s English
lesson, let’s look at some idioms and vocabulary related to the cold.
Here are the example sentences:
· Jack Frost is outside.
· Old Man
Winter came for a visit.
· It’s 32
degrees but the wind chill factor is 20. It feels like 20 degrees because of
the wind.
·
The snow is
starting to stick.
·
It’s
snowing, and the snow is sticking.
·
The snow isn’t sticking.
·
It’s
snowing, but the snow’s not sticking.
·
The snow is
starting to accumulate (or) The snow is starting to pile up.
·
The snow is
accumulating (or) The snow is piling up.
·
About 5
inches of snow accumulated overnight (or) About 5 inches of snow piled up
overnight.
·
We are
expecting an accumulation of 5 to 10 inches of snow.
·
We are
expecting snow accumulation of 5 to 10 inches.
To give someone the cold shoulder:
·
When John
saw his ex-girlfriend at the party with another guy, he gave them the cold
shoulder.
·
Jenny gave
me the cold shoulder this morning in the office. I wonder what’s wrong.
To be snowed
under:
·
I’m snow
under this week, so I have to work a lot of overtime to finish it.
·
At the end
of a semester, most college students are snowed under with schoolwork.
To be on thin ice:
·
Jack’s
girlfriend caught him having drinks with another woman last month and he is
still spending time with her. He’s really on thin ice. If his girlfriend
catches him again she’s going to leave him.
Christopher came late again today? He’s already on
thin ice with the boss for having a bad sales record