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

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        "2": "pleuvoir comme vache qui pisse",
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        "4": "rain like a pissing cow"
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          "ref": "1994, Albert Watson, Woodstock '94: the book, St Martins Pr",
          "text": "It poured like a cow pissing on a flat rock. Summer thunderstorm in a Catskill cattle pasture with 350,000 Mud People standing in it. Aerosmith was supposed to play at midnight, but midnight came and went.",
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          "ref": "2004, James Corwin, A Grizzly Way to Die",
          "text": "We hadn't gone a mile before it started to rain, light tentative drops at first, like unsure messengers. Then the lightning started and rent open the clouds. It came down like a cow pissing on a flat rock. We had no slickers and were soon soaked.",
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          "ref": "2014, Barbara Hall, Close to Home: A Novel, Open Road Media",
          "text": "Rita's car was an old Plymouth Fury that, despite the meticulous attention given to its lubrication system, leaked oil like a cow pissing on a flat rock. Nel and Danny got into the pickup truck and followed the trail of black ooze, all the way down ...",
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          "ref": "2016, Victoria Vane, Beauty and the Bull Rider, Lyrical Shine",
          "text": "It was pouring like a cow pissing on a flat rock. Would he show? She didn't know if he would or not, but the cows still had to be fed. Heaving herself out of bed, she threw on her rattiest jeans and a baggy tee and trudged out to the rain-soaked pastures, […]",
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        "(US, of rain or other liquid falling, vulgar) Heavily; copiously (and often loudly)."
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          "sense": "heavily — see also rain cats and dogs, piss it down",
          "word": "comme vache qui pisse"
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