单词 | mackerel sky |
释义 | mackerel sky (once / 166470 pages) n WORD FAMILY mackerel sky: mackerel skies USAGE EXAMPLESI heed the saying that, “Mackerel skies and mare’s tails / make wise men lower sails.” The New Yorker(Dec 05, 2014) Another form that the cirro stratus may assume is the mackerel sky,—clouds with the light and shade of the scales of a fish. Longstreth, Thomas Morris, Reading the Weather(2012) When the cirrus and cumulus are combined, in well-defined roundish masses, what is familiarly described as a “mackerel sky” is beautifully presented. M'Pherson, J. G., Meteorology—or Weather Explained(2012) n a sky filled with rows of cirrocumulus or small altocumulus clouds Hyper sky the atmosphere and outer space as viewed from the earth |
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