You must summer and winter with someone to know them well.
summer and winter
idiomTo spend extended periods of time with; to test.
Before you decide to move in together, you should summer and winter with your partner to see how you handle daily life.
True friendship is rarely forged in a moment, but rather through the long process of summering and wintering with another person through every season of life.
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buy straw hats in winter
Of stocks, to buy when both demand and price are low, so as to sell when demand and price are high.
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dead of winter
The middle of the winter, characterized by being particularly cold.
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high summer
The hottest part of the summer.
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sweet summer child
Someone who is naive, or who has never experienced hardship.
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winter rat
An old, unattractive automobile, purchased for little money, to be driven during brutal Great Lakes winters while the owner's "good" car remains garaged and protected from corrosive road salt for the season.
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winter wonderland
A beautiful scene of snow and ice.