Everyone talks about nature and the weather — and many have an opinion about it!
“Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather,” wrote John Ruskin, a famous 19th-century English art critic, watercolorist, philosopher and social thinker.
And the Germans? The above picture gallery has a few examples of how Germans use weather phenomena in everyday, popular idioms.
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Article source: https://www.dw.com/en/thin-ice-and-yesterday-s-snow-german-nature-idioms/a-54209315?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf