storm cloud
nounDefinition
› [C usually singular] a large, dark cloud that brings rain or comes before a stormClouds, dew, fog and steamStormy weatherWind and winds storm clouds [plural] literary › trouble, especially trouble that is going to happen soon: Economic storm clouds are gathering over India. The storm clouds of war seem to be looming over the east.Causing difficulties for oneself or others
(Definition of storm cloud noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- ail verb (CAUSE DIFFICULTY)
- be a tall order idiom
- be asking for trouble idiom
- be your own worst enemy idiom
- catch sb out phrasal verb (CAUSE DIFFICULTY)
- come back/home to roost idiom
- fault line noun (PROBLEM)
- head for sth phrasal verb
- land sb in sth phrasal verb
- lay up trouble for yourself idiom
- lay yourself open to attack, criticism, ridicule, etc. idiom
- like pulling teeth idiom
- plunge (sb/sth) into sth phrasal verb
- pose verb (CAUSE)
- shoot yourself in the foot idiom
- sow the seeds of sth idiom
- spell trouble idiom
- store up trouble/problems idiom
- suicide noun (DEFEAT)
- wrong-foot verb
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