rain cats and dogs

English

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rain cats and dogs (third-person singular simple present rains cats and dogs, present participle raining cats and dogs, simple past and past participle rained cats and dogs)

to rain very heavily

Arabic: أَمْطَرَ بِغَزَارَة‎ (ʾamṭara bi-ḡazāra)
Breton: Gwelet a ran da gazh er jardin
Catalan: ploure a bots i barrals (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 傾盆大雨 (zh), 倾盆大雨 (zh) (qīngpéndàyǔ)
Czech: lít jako z konve (cs), padat trakaře
Dutch: pijpenstelen regenen, regenen dat het giet
Finnish: sataa kaatamalla, sataa äkäisiä ämmiä äkeet selässä, sataa kuin saavista kaataen
French: pleuvoir des cordes (fr), pleuvoir à verse (fr), pleuvoir des hallebardes (fr), pleuvoir comme vache qui pisse (fr), (Québec) pleuvoir à boire debout (fr), (Belgium) dracher (fr)
Galician: arroiar, diluviar, chover a chuzos, chover a cachón (gl), chover a Deus dar auga
Georgian: კოკისპირული წვიმა (ḳoḳisṗiruli c̣vima)
German: Bindfäden regnen (de), in Strömen regnen (de), aus allen Kannen gießen, aus allen Kannen schütten, es schüttet wie aus Eimern
Greek: βρέχει με το τουλούμι (vréchei me to touloúmi)
Hungarian: zuhog, mintha dézsából öntenék
Icelandic: vera mígandi rigning, rigna eldi og brennisteini
Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} pluver torrentialmente
Irish: sceana gréasaí a chur

Italian: piovere a catinelle, diluviare (it), scrosciare (it), piovere come Dio la manda
Japanese: 土砂降りになる (どしゃぶりになる, doshaburi-ni naru)
Korean: 비가 억수같이 쏟아진다 (bi-ga eoksu-gachi ssodajinda)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: høljeregne (no), høljregne (no), regne sinte kjerringer (rain mad hags)

Nynorsk: høljeregne, ausregne
Polish: lać jak z cebra (pl)
Portuguese: o céu vir abaixo, chover a cântaros (pt) (Portugal), chover a potes (Portugal), cair um toró (Brazil), chover canivetes (Brazil)
Romanian: a ploua cu găleata, plouă cu găleata
Russian: лить как из ведра́ (litʹ kak iz vedrá)
Slovak: liať ako z krhly
Spanish: llover a cántaros (es), llover a mares (es)
Swedish: ösregna (sv), spöregna (sv), stå som spön i backen (sv)
Turkish: bardaktan boşalırcasına yağmak
Vietnamese: (trời) mưa xối xả, (trời) mưa như trút
Welsh: bwrw hen wragedd â ffyn (cy)

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