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Idiom

eye of the storm

Meaning

A period of calm in a tumultuous time.

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“This quiet moment is the eye of the storm.”

“The office was chaotic all morning, but this lunch break feels like the eye of the storm.”

“He found a brief moment of clarity in the eye of the storm, just before the final crisis demanded his full attention.”

Examples

simple

“This quiet moment is the eye of the storm.”

contextual

“The office was chaotic all morning, but this lunch break feels like the eye of the storm.”

complex

“He found a brief moment of clarity in the eye of the storm, just before the final crisis demanded his full attention.”

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