"rain buckets" meaning in English

{
  "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"
        }
      ],
      "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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "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",
        "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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To rain heavily"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "heavily",
          "heavily"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To rain heavily"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "rain cats and dogs"
    }
  ],
  "word": "rain buckets"
}