calm before the storm
A period of peace before a disturbance or crisis; an unnatural or false calm before a storm.
The meeting may be peaceful now, but this is only the calm before the storm.
calm
UK /kɑm/ US /kɑm/
adj 5noun 4verb 2
Definitions
adj
1
Peaceful, quiet, especially free from anger and anxiety.
2
Free of noise and disturbance.
Calm is the morn without a sound, Calm as to suit a calmer grief, And only thro’ the faded leaf The chestnut pattering to the ground: […]
3
with few or no waves on the surface; not rippled.
4
Without wind or storm.
5
Good; alright; cool; OK.
Hi, welcome to Puma. If you need any help, my name's Kelly. That's calm, man[…]Thirty pounds is the limit, I think you'll pay no more, I'm sorry. Aight, fuck it! What, can I do chip and pin. Calm, I'ma put my pin in like boom!
Been living my life as a Kingpin. I'm calm with the heat of the kitchen.
noun
1
The state of being calm; peacefulness; absence of worry, anger, fear or other strong negative emotion.
Calm on the seas, and silver sleep, And waves that sway themselves in rest, And dead calm in that noble breast Which heaves but with the heaving deep.
2
The state of being calm; absence of noise and disturbance.
3
The absence of wind; a period of time without wind.
The wind ceased, and there was a great calm.
It was a calm ; so, forming a tandem of three boats, we commenced the slow business of towing the trophy to the Pequod.
verb
1
To make calm.
to calm a crying baby
to calm the passions
2
To become calm.
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