dark cloud

English

Noun

dark cloud (plural dark clouds)

(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.

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