dark cloud
noun1
Idiomatic A situation or future event that causes worry, problems or unhappiness, likened to such a cloud overhead in the sky.
- dark clouds brooding overhead
- Strikes remain the other dark cloud hanging over the railway.2024 February 7, Philip Haigh, “Railway's fragile resilience”, in RAIL, number 1002, page 3:
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- every dark cloud has a silver lining