2006-07-08 02:47:44 · 17 answers · asked by Tower Of Strength 6 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
It comes from the general calm, low pressure area at the head of an approaching storm. Its often sunny and pleasant with a magnificent looming gray wall on the horizon. Folks find analogies with this meteorological phenomenon in everyday life. For instance, in the food industry, when hours will pass with no customers until suddenly, you get slammed and there's virtually no way you can make and deliver that many pizzas in time.
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2006-07-08 02:57:18 · answer #1 · answered by jerrytherobot 2 · 12⤊ 0⤋
It means when everything seems okay just before disaster hits. I believe the origin is from the weather within the eye of a hurricane. All is calm inside the eye of the storm...until the back part (or 2nd wind) occurs. It may also refer to the general calmness that follows some storms that rush in quickly...when the wind is calm and doesn't seem to move at all.
2006-07-08 19:26:45 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have noticed that many have cought the obvious weather connection and have invariably noted low wind pressure and such, but there is more.
Often animals can sense great danger before we are awake to the possibility. They often scurry off, birds take to flight.Herds gather up tight and start moving a sort of double. In Africa just before the big rains lions and tigers take to orderly vacating with the same animals that were possible candidates for dinner the day before.
War can have the same effect at sea or on the ground. There you are going through extended periods of absolute boardum, on the ground birds as in the wild take to flight and all seems still then hell come calling. It may be as little as a few minutes of hell but it can seem like an eternity. When it's over and assuming your still in one piece you'll remember that quite innocence and that,s what popularized the metaphor!
2006-07-08 22:25:36 · answer #3 · answered by namazanyc 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Prior to a storm hitting you usually get strong gust of winds caused by the change in air temperature. Just before the storm hit or breaks there's wind stop and all is calm.
2006-07-08 09:57:05 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means that moment before everything goes terribly terribly wrong, when theres a weird sense of peace and calm...like the moments just before a large storm, when the air becomes still and quiet...
2006-07-08 09:50:45 · answer #5 · answered by Firematt26 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the work where there are a lot of pressure points, the period where it is relatively quiet(is the calm) before the pressure period(ie the storm).
2006-07-08 09:52:16 · answer #6 · answered by brogdenuk 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
before a storm is due you will find that the weather is very calm - so calm before the storm
2006-07-08 18:23:53 · answer #7 · answered by citychic 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My grandmother used to say that and I think she was right. I have noticed that the air becomes very still before a storm. Or to use as a metaphor.. ... We always notice at work it is very quiet and then we really get swamped.
2006-07-08 10:09:19 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
one word :- tsunami. Check out the video footage of the Asia tsunami disaster. The winds stop blowing and the waves just quiet out, then before you know it... disaster struck. Perhaps you would have an image in your mind now. Yeap.. that's what the phrase mean.
2006-07-08 10:02:04 · answer #9 · answered by pbprussia 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it means to stay calm when something bad is about to happen.
2006-07-08 09:52:35 · answer #10 · answered by Lacybug 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋