1 (classical) to say

1 cloudy (meteorology)

1 old practice

2 classifier: 个 gè

1 floating clouds

2 fleeting

3 transient

1 weather

2 unstable situation

1 complete change from the old rut (idiom); dramatic change of direction

2 a volte-face

3 to change old practices

1 beyond the topmost clouds (idiom)

2 unimaginably far away

1 to say what everyone says (idiom)

2 to conform to what one perceives to be the majority view

3 to follow the herd

1 meeting an old friend in a foreign place (idiom)

1 back to where we were (idiom); absolutely no improvement

2 Things haven't changed at all.