every cloud has a silver lining = there is something good even in a difficult or
sad situation.
See, you lost your job but now you will start working for a better company. Every
cloud has a silver lining.
to flood the market = to produce and a sell a large number of one type of thing,
so that its price goes down.
They have the intention to flood the market with their new mobile phones.
to be flooded with something = to receive so many letters or inquiries that you
cannot deal with all of them.
We've been flooded with letters, but we will try to answer them all.
in floods of tears = crying a lot.
The little girl arrived in floods of tears.
to shower somebody with something = to give somebody a lot of something.
Her family showered her with birthday presents.
to shower something on / over something = to scatter something on / over a
place.
Hundreds of leaflets were showered over the streets.
to rain on somebody's parade = to spoil somebody's plans.
I'm sorry to rain on your parade, but you can't enter the park with food.
to take the wind out of somebody's sails = to make somebody lose their
confidence, especially by saying or doing something unexpected.
She was ready to tell him that the relationship was over, but he appeared with a
big bunch of flowers. That took the wind out of her sails.
a hail of bullets / stones = a large number of bullets / stones.
The tanks were met by a hail of bullets.
to not have the foggiest idea = to not know something at all.
None of us had the foggiest idea about how to use the computer.
a frosty look / stare / tone = an unfriendly look / stare / tone.
I arrived late and the teacher gave me a frosty look.
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