Hassan came by to visit earlier today. He was feeling a little under the weather. Speaking of "under the weather," Hassan told me about the issues he and his family had with idioms, colloquialisms, and homophones when they moved to the United States over 30 years ago. He stated that when he first heard the phrase, "under the weather," he was so confounded by envisioning a person trapped under a cloud of sinister weather; like a boy trapped under a rain cloud unable to escape.
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