the calm before the storm

Meaning

1. a calm time immediately before an expected period of violent activity or argument

From the same entry

• calm down
• be as clever, stupid, as they come
• come again
• come and go
• come easily, naturally, to
• come over faint, dizzy, giddy
• come the
• come to nothing
• come to that
• come what may
• how come
• not come to much