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Rain related Vocabulary
Now the rain has subsided
Unremitting rain
Torrential rain, heavy downpour.
It is pouring down, it is raining heavily
It is raining pups and kittens=mild rain
Drizzling
Isolated rain
Brimming river
Brimming with confidence=highly confident
When he was delivering his speech, he was bursting with ideas and bubbling with energy.
Wall to wall smile, wall to wall coverage
The entire place is flooded.
The entire paddy field is submerged.
The whole place is inundated ജലപ്രളയം and marooned നാലുവശവും വെള്ളം പൊങ്ങി ഒറ്റപ്പെട്ടുപോയ (isolated).
It will wash away
water logged, clogged
It is raining incessantly ഇടവിടാതെ
Some people feel the rain, some others just get wet
No let up
When the rain lets up we will go for a walk
The rain is letting up
Rain with thunderstorm
All the water bodies are full and brimming
Hell is empty and all the devils are here
GRASS Idioms
He is as fresh as grass
Did you hear that Saleem's best friend stole money from his bank account? What a snake in the grass!
We have tens and thousands of grass widows in Kerala.
The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.
I overslept. Nobody woke me up
As I overslept, I couldn't make it there
I slept longer than I should have
My alarm didn't go off
I just lost the track of time
I didn't notice what time it was
I have to wait ages for a bus
The buses were few and far between
The traffic was horrible and terrible
I lost my way coming here
I got stuck in a traffic jam for half an hour
I got stuck in a heavy rain for more than half an hour
I got held up in a meeting
I couldn't get out of the meeting
I got tied up in a meeting
I got pre-occupied in a meeting
I couldn't make myself available for the meeting
I couldn't make it there (reach there)
It was raining like anything
Traffic was moving at a snake ache / snail mail
I couldn't find a parking lot/space/space
On the top of........
The road was broken with full of potholes....large stretch of road was completely unmotorable
I don't know how I got the hell out of there
I searched here, there and everywhere to find you, but no avail...I moved heaven and earth
Ramadan is at its fag-end
+ Emotional expressions in English
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