dark cloud

English

Noun

dark cloud (plural dark clouds)

1. (idiomatic) A situation or future event that causes worry, problems or unhappiness, likened to such a cloud overhead in the sky.
   • 2024 February 7, Philip Haigh, “Railway's fragile resilience”, in RAIL, number 1002, page 3:

     Strikes remain the other dark cloud hanging over the railway.

Related terms

• every dark cloud has a silver lining

References

• “a dark cloud”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
• “dark cloud”, in Collins English Dictionary.