rain buckets
verbEtymology From figurative sense of pouring from buckets.
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Idiomatic To rain heavily
- After lunching, Caesar went out to post some cards, and as it was raining buckets, he took refuge in the arcades of the Piazza Esedra1923, Pío Baroja, Caesar or Nothing:
- It was still raining buckets when he stepped into his house, even though the worst seemed almost over.2018, Andrea Camilleri, The Pyramid of Mud, Penguin Books, page 167:
- Synonyms
- rain cats and dogs