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cloudburst (a sudden very heavy fall of rain; a sudden heavy rainstorm; a downpour.); soak; driving rain; pelting rain; drencher; drench; soaker; stair rods (идиома Leenx); it is raining pitchforks; torrential rainstorm (Alexey Lebedev); shower (Franky Mьller); downpour (a heavy rainfall Val_Ships); pouring pelting, driving, torrential rain; a soaking rain | |||
pounding rain; shower rain; rain shower; storm rain; heavy fall of rain | |||
torrent (a violent downpour of rain Val_Ships); torrential downpour (с ветром; a violent downpour of rain Val_Ships); legger (Taras) | |||
poured rain | |||
turd-floater (Taras) | |||
pelter; pissing rain (выражение употребляется во вполне приличных источниках) I left my phone outside in the pissing rain. / Anyway, it beat pounding the street in the pissing rain all day or filling in forms. 4uzhoj) | |||
heavy rain | |||
heavy downpour (в проливной дождь – during a heavy downpour of rain | Heavy downpours can cause flash floods and water pooling on roads. ART Vancouver); rainstorm (Andrey Truhachev); violent rain (Andrey Truhachev); heavy rainfall (Andrey Truhachev) | |||
downpour | |||
rain cats and dogs (In the middle of the match, it started to rain cats and dogs. == В середине матча вдруг начался жуткий ливень.) | |||
torrential rain; pouring rain | |||
spout | |||
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Toad Choker (A very hard down pour of rain. Пример: "The weather man forcasted a toad choker for the weekend." Franka_LV) |
проливной дождь : 47 phrases in 8 subjects |
American usage, not spelling | 2 |
Building structures | 2 |
Business | 1 |
Construction | 1 |
General | 24 |
Idiomatic | 3 |
Makarov | 10 |
Meteorology | 4 |