English-French translations for calm before the storm

• calme avant la tempête
  Le succès du Danemark lors du sommet de Copenhague ne sera alors plus que le calme avant la tempête. Denmark's success at the Copenhagen Summit would then merely be the calm before the storm.

Definition of calm before the storm

• A period of peace before a disturbance or crisis; an unnatural or false calm before a storm

Examples

• The meeting may be peaceful now, but this is only the calm before the storm

Related words

• the calm before the storm
• be becalmed
• become calm
• becalm
• becalmed