This mini episode teaches you the useful expression “under the weather.”
Episode 156 of the Everybody ESL podcast is a mini episode that teaches you the expression “under the weather.” Send your questions about English and your suggestions for future episodes to EverybodyESL@gmail.com! (And let me know if you’d like to record the introduction to a future episode.)
The expression I'm going to teach you today is under the weather. Under the weather. That's under: u-n-d-e-r. The: t-h-e. Weather: w-e-a-t-h-e-r. Under the weather.
What does under the weather mean? Under the weather means “feeling sick, not feeling good.”
Here is a sentence that uses the phrase under the weather: She can't go out with her friends after work today because she's feeling a bit under the weather. She can't go out with her friends after work today because she's feeling a bit under the weather.
In other words, she can't go out after work tonight because she feels a little bit sick. She's not feeling well, so she can't go out.
And that's under the weather—a useful, common expression that I think you should know.