"like a cow on a flat rock" meaning in English

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Adverb

Etymology: See like a cow pissing on a flat rock for other similar terms. Head templates: {{en-adv|-}} like a cow on a flat rock (not comparable)
  1. (US, of raining, pissing, etc) Heavily, copiously, with a great deluge. Tags: US, not-comparable Related terms: like a cow pissing on a flat rock
    Sense id: en-like_a_cow_on_a_flat_rock-en-adv-xJuBViRS Categories (other): American English, English entries with incorrect language header

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          "ref": "1974, Harold F. Warren, A Right Good People, page 87",
          "text": "I better shake a leg before them clouds cut loose like a cow on a flat rock.",
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          "ref": "1983, James A. Michener, Tales of the South Pacific, page 338",
          "text": "The rain alone could have been tolerated. The skies opened torrentially every morning, afternoon, evening and night. “Like a cow on a flat rock,” old Navy hands said. In between the sun shone and generated steam wherever water lay. Men's shirts were never dry save for one fleeting instant when the sun had finished evaporating rain water and sweat had not yet started to pour.",
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          "ref": "1999, William Gay, The Long Home, page 15",
          "text": "\"Get in here out of that.\"\n\"It's too late now,\" Winer said. \"I don't see how I can get any wetter.\" […]\n\"It's fell a flood, ain't it?\"\n\"Like a cow on a flat rock,\" Oliver agreed.",
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          "ref": "2014, Linda Lael Miller, Deadly Gamble, page 145",
          "text": "I had to pee like a cow on a flat rock, but I wasn't getting down [off the top of the refrigerator] until she either put the demon [dog] outside or shot him with a tranquilizer dart. Even then, he'd have to twitch for five minutes before the coast could be considered clear.",
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          "ref": "2019, Ian Wood, Merde on the Orient Express",
          "text": "\"At six [in the] morning, he's pissing like a cow on a flat rock, and at seven he's shitting like a wild elephant.\" \"So what is the problem?\" \"He doesn't wake until eight!\" \"Ah!\"",
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          "ref": "2010, Ben E. Terry, Dancing with the Devil, page 9",
          "text": "The other was holding her pants out of the way, because she was pissing like a cow on a flat rock, and the flat rock was Buck's WELCOME mat.",
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