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I'm Yang Lee.

I'm waiting for Jan to arrive in the studio, but she's outside and she's in a really bad mood.

So I thought it would be a good opportunity to teach you some weather idioms.

What do you think?

Jen is looking really angry.

Have a listen.

It's so unfair.

I've been working all morning, I've done all sorts of things and the boss just won't give me that promotion.

He told me that if I'm working on...

She has a face like thunder.

If you have a face like thunder, it means that you are very angry indeed and Jen definitely seems

angry. Oh it's so unfair when things go wrong for me they always go badly wrong it never rains but it

pause there's another weather idiom did you hear it Jen said it never rains but it pours.

That's something that people say when they think they have very big problems.

I wonder what Jen's problem is.

Oh, here she comes.

Hi Lee, sorry I'm late. I'm so upset. The boss said that I would get a promotion

if I finished all of my work by midday. I've finished

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