Tuomas Hämäläinen 🇺🇦
“To be under the weather” is such a curious saying. If you think about it, weather exists above all of us, all the time.
Mar 18 at 10:54amIvory for iOS
Show threadKonstantin 🔭6d ago

@tuomas_h Oh it's fascinating! When you lookup the origin, it suddenly makes a lot more sense :D, hiding below deck from a storm or feeling seasick

https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/under-the-weather

under the weather — Wordorigins.org

4 August 2021 To be under the weather is to be ill or otherwise indisposed. The phrase originated as an Americanism, but it has its roots in an older, British nautical term. To be under the sea or under the weather is to ride out a storm in some protected anchorage. The later American sense i

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