Matching Pairs Match the idiomsOnline version Match the idiom to its meaning by Zolfa Abdulmalik 1 The calm before the storm 2 To be a breeze 3 Save something for a rainy day 4 Under the weather 5 Every cloud has a silver lining 6 It's raining cats and dogs 7 Cloud nine 8 To steal someone's thunder 9 Head in the clouds 10 To take a rain check To be easy or requiring little effort To postpone something To be optimistic and hope that something good can come out of a bad situation to describe feeling unwell Keep something, like money, for a time when it's needed A brief moment of peace and quiet before a busy or a difficult period arrives extremely happy It's raining heavily To take the attention away from someone else used to describe someone overly-optimistic about a situation or have unrealistic ideas about something