rain buckets

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rain buckets

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From figurative sense of pouring from buckets.

verb rains buckets · raining buckets · rained buckets

  1. 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 Esedra

    Similar: rain cats and dogs

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@misc{rain_buckets_2026,
  title = {rain buckets},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/rain%20buckets},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}