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Meanings of rain buckets in English

Portuguese
chover a cântaros
Catalan
diluviar

Rain heavily.

        chover a cântaros

        To rain heavily.

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            Examples for "bucket"
            Examples for "bucket"
            1
            They call themselves 'the bucket list family' for a very good reason.
            The South African
            2
            Thou sattest in one bucket beneath in the pit in great dread.
            Song and Legend from the Middle Ages
            3
            But first, hoist me up a bucket of sea water, will you?
            On Stranger Tides
            4
            A few minutes later Kote returned with a bucket of soapy water.
            The Name of the Wind
            5
            Is participating in an obstacle course race on your fitness bucket list?
            The South African
            1
            It can also bucket down with rain from time to time too.
            News.com.au
            2
            I lifted the well cover, as usual, and dropped the bucket down.
            Caleb's crossing
            3
            So they let the bucket down again, and she made off.
            Poets and Dreamers: Studies and translations from the Irish
            4
            It can bucket down in one village, while the next village remains dry.
            The Guardian
            5
            The kid put his bucket down and collapsed into the girl's arms, shuddering.
            Night Shift
            1
            I just made a ball of snow and chucked it down.
            Dark Eden
            2
            He chucked it down into a corner and helped himself to a cup of tea.
            The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Memoirs of Sherlock Ho...
            3
            Chuck it down in the coal cellar, will you?
            Merton of the Movies
            4
            It is chucking it down in Regent's Park, cars are splashing pedestrians, expensive frocks and suits are getting drenched.
            The Guardian
            5
            So Jimmy chucks it down.
            Greenwich Village
            1
            I wouldn't piss down his throat if his heart was on fire.
            Paths not taken
            2
            Make I piss down leg of I, that is come warm, now cold.
            Voice of the Fire
            3
            I felt her go, just like piss down the inside of my leg.
            Pet Sematary
            4
            It didn't have the decency to really belly up and piss down on us.
            Karen Memory
            5
            And all of them want to rip my head off and piss down my neck, Theisman thought mordantly.
            Ashes Of Victory
            1
            'In my experience, children don't run away in the middle of the night, especially when it's pissing it down with rain.
            Blood harvest
            1
            It rained pitchforks and pineapples, but the hall, a large one, was completely filled.
            Life of Father Hecker
            2
            Raining pitchforks all the time, you understand.
            A Fool and His Money
            3
            There is no credible report that it has ever yet rained pitchforks, but many other curious things have fallen.
            Locusts and Wild Honey
            4
            "But it's raining pitchforks," demurred Miss Judy.
            The Camp Fire Girls at Camp Keewaydin; Or, Paddles Down
            5
            "You need," said he, "to have it rain pitchforks, tines downward, from this pulpit, Sunday after Sunday."
            The Lions of the Lord: A Tale of the Old West
            Usage of rain buckets in English
            1
            Thousands of residents have evacuated to higher ground as rain buckets down, and flooding continues.
            Radio NZ
            2
            It's going to rain buckets here any time now. I poked him on the shoulder.
            Calamity jayne
            3
            The rain buckets down on Mayo and there is nothing for it but to bemoan another distorted and inglorious All-Ireland defeat.
            The Irish Times
            4
            It rained buckets, it rained vats; it rained swimming pools and lakes and rivers.
            The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth
            5
            Her fly had played her false, and, being our island home, it rained buckets.
            Hard Cash
            6
            It had been pouring for several days; raining buckets, barrels-Tenthousand barrels a day!
            Flowing Gold
            7
            It'd been raining buckets when I left, after all.
            Sister Mine
            8
            It's been raining buckets for three days.
            Shadow zone
            9
            Outside, it abruptly rained buckets.
            A Case of Conscience
            10
            After lunching, Cæsar went out to post some cards, and as it was raining buckets, he took refuge in the arcades of the Piazza Esedra.
            Cæsar or Nothing
            Translations for rain buckets