English
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Verb
rain cats and dogs (third-person singular simple present rains cats and dogs, present participle raining cats and dogs, simple past and past participle rained cats and dogs)
- (idiomatic) To rain very heavily.
- Synonyms: bucket, bucket down, chuck it down, rain buckets, rain pitchforks, pelt, (vulgar) piss down, (vulgar) piss it down, pour, stream, teem
Translations
to rain very heavily
- Arabic: أَمْطَرَ بِغَزَارَة (ʾamṭara bi-ḡazāra)
- Breton: Gwelet a ran da gazh er jardin
- Catalan: ploure a bots i barrals (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 傾盆大雨/倾盆大雨 (zh) (qīngpéndàyǔ), 倾盆大雨 (zh) (qīngpéndàyǔ)
- Czech: lít jako z konve (cs), padat trakaře
- Dutch: pijpenstelen regenen, regenen dat het giet
- Finnish: sataa kaatamalla, sataa äkäisiä ämmiä äkeet selässä, sataa kuin saavista kaataen
- French: pleuvoir des cordes (fr), pleuvoir à verse (fr), pleuvoir des hallebardes (fr), pleuvoir comme vache qui pisse (fr), (Québec) pleuvoir à boire debout (fr), (Belgium) dracher (fr)
- Galician: arroiar, diluviar, chover a chuzos, chover a cachón (gl), chover a Deus dar auga
- Georgian: კოკისპირული წვიმა (ḳoḳisṗiruli c̣vima)
- German: Bindfäden regnen (de), in Strömen regnen (de), aus allen Kannen gießen, aus allen Kannen schütten, es schüttet wie aus Eimern
- Greek: βρέχει με το τουλούμι (vréchei me to touloúmi)
- Hungarian: zuhog, mintha dézsából öntenék
- Icelandic: vera mígandi rigning, rigna eldi og brennisteini
- Interlingua: (please verify) pluver torrentialmente
- Irish: sceana gréasaí a chur
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- Italian: piovere a catinelle, diluviare (it), scrosciare (it), piovere come Dio la manda
- Japanese: 土砂降りになる (どしゃぶりになる, doshaburi-ni naru)
- Korean: 비가 억수같이 쏟아진다 (bi-ga eoksu-gachi ssodajinda)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: høljeregne (no), høljregne (no), regne sinte kjerringer (rain mad hags)
- Nynorsk: høljeregne, ausregne
- Polish: lać jak z cebra (pl)
- Portuguese: o céu vir abaixo, chover a cântaros (pt) (Portugal), chover a potes (Portugal), cair um toró (Brazil), chover canivetes (Brazil)
- Romanian: a ploua cu găleata, plouă cu găleata
- Russian: лить как из ведра́ (litʹ kak iz vedrá)
- Slovak: liať ako z krhly
- Spanish: llover a cántaros (es), llover a mares (es)
- Swedish: ösregna (sv), spöregna (sv), stå som spön i backen (sv)
- Turkish: bardaktan boşalırcasına yağmak
- Vietnamese: (trời) mưa xối xả, (trời) mưa như trút
- Welsh: bwrw hen wragedd â ffyn (cy)
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