rain cats and dogs
Verb
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Verb
rain cats and dogs
- (idiomatic, impersonal) To rain very heavily.
- Synonyms: bucket, bucket down, chuck it down, come down cats and dogs, rain buckets, rain pitchforks, pelt, piss down, piss it down, pour, pour cats and dogs, storm cats and dogs, stream, teem
- French: pleuvoir des cordes, pleuvoir à verse, pleuvoir des hallebardes, pleuvoir comme vache qui pisse, (Québec) pleuvoir à boire debout, (Belgium) dracher
- German: Bindfäden regnen, in Strömen regnen, aus allen Kannen gießen, aus allen Kannen schütten, es schüttet wie aus Eimern
- Italian: piovere a catinelle, diluviare, scrosciare, piovere come Dio la manda
- Portuguese: o céu vir abaixo, chover a cântaros (Portugal), chover a potes (Portugal), cair um toró (Brazil), chover canivetes (Brazil)
- Russian: лить как из ведра́
- Spanish: llover a cántaros, llover a mares
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