Once in a thousand years …

A few years ago I lived in the tropics where it rained very heavily quite often. However, the rain we have had in the UK over the past couple of weeks rivals the rain in the rainforests! This is certainly the wettest November ever. We are told that the rainfall that the north of England has seen over the past few days is a ‘once in a thousand years event’. Once in a thousand years?! Does that mean it won’t happen again for another thousand years? How can they say that when they say the climate is changing? The phrase ‘once in a thousand years’ reminds me of the idiom we have in English ‘once in a blue moon’ to describe something that hardly ever happens. That reminds me of those very entertaining youtube videos about idioms from The Teacher here.

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