| 单词 | it rains pouring |
| 释义 | > as lemmasit rains pouring In phrases relating to heavy rainfall, as pouring wet: (of a period of time) characterized by heavy rainfall, extremely wet; †it rains pouring: it rains heavily, it pours down (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > rain > [adverb] > heavily pouringly1621 pouring1771 torrentially1882 monsoonishly1899 1771 T. Deletanville New French Dict. (at cited word) Que,..il arriva, q'il pleuvoit à verse, he came, when it rained pouring. 1831 New Sporting Mag. Oct. 405/1 On a..pouring wet day, what is an unfortunate individual to do with himself. 1860 J. A. Eames Budget Closed 167 On Sunday, it rained pouring all day. 1868 N. Hawthorne Amer. Note-bks. (1879) II. 234 It rained pouring. 1900 Daily News 3 July 8/1 The nights had often been pouring wet. 1952 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 9 Sept. 11/4 There is no record..of a pouring wet Coronation Day. 1992 Climber & Hill Walker (BNC) 47 On a long, lowland walk on a pouring wet day my feet were no more than damp. < as lemmas |
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