dark cloud
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It will be a completely new festive experience for her, and while she and the bride will spend time reminiscing about their childhoods in Cardiff, she admits a "dark cloud" hangs over her home city.
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"But I know the dark cloud will pass at some point."
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They had an air of worry about them, as if a dark cloud of difficulty and disappointment was hanging low over their heads.
From Literature
Everything is examined for infringements, meaning no goal can be celebrated unanimously any more until it has been cleared, with the dreaded checks by Stockley Park hanging over stadiums like a dark cloud.
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A dark cloud was rising in the south.
From Literature
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