See rain buckets on Wiktionary
{ "etymology_text": "From figurative sense of pouring from buckets.", "forms": [ { "form": "rains buckets", "tags": [ "present", "singular", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "raining buckets", "tags": [ "participle", "present" ] }, { "form": "rained buckets", "tags": [ "participle", "past" ] }, { "form": "rained buckets", "tags": [ "past" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "*" }, "expansion": "rain buckets (third-person singular simple present rains buckets, present participle raining buckets, simple past and past participle rained buckets)", "name": "en-verb" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "verb", "senses": [ { "categories": [ { "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 1 entry", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w" } ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1923, Pío Baroja, Caesar or Nothing:", "text": "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", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2018, Andrea Camilleri, The Pyramid of Mud, Penguin Books, page 167:", "text": "It was still raining buckets when he stepped into his house, even though the worst seemed almost over.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "To rain heavily" ], "id": "en-rain_buckets-en-verb-roEA1qUs", "links": [ [ "heavily", "heavily" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(idiomatic) To rain heavily" ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "rain cats and dogs" } ], "tags": [ "idiomatic" ] } ], "word": "rain buckets" }
{ "etymology_text": "From figurative sense of pouring from buckets.", "forms": [ { "form": "rains buckets", "tags": [ "present", "singular", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "raining buckets", "tags": [ "participle", "present" ] }, { "form": "rained buckets", "tags": [ "participle", "past" ] }, { "form": "rained buckets", "tags": [ "past" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "*" }, "expansion": "rain buckets (third-person singular simple present rains buckets, present participle raining buckets, simple past and past participle rained buckets)", "name": "en-verb" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "verb", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English entries with incorrect language header", "English idioms", "English lemmas", "English multiword terms", "English terms with quotations", "English verbs", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries", "Quotation templates to be cleaned" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1923, Pío Baroja, Caesar or Nothing:", "text": "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", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2018, Andrea Camilleri, The Pyramid of Mud, Penguin Books, page 167:", "text": "It was still raining buckets when he stepped into his house, even though the worst seemed almost over.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "To rain heavily" ], "links": [ [ "heavily", "heavily" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(idiomatic) To rain heavily" ], "tags": [ "idiomatic" ] } ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "rain cats and dogs" } ], "word": "rain buckets" }
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