"rain pitchforks" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-rain pitchforks.ogg [Australia] Forms: rains pitchforks [present, singular, third-person], raining pitchforks [participle, present], rained pitchforks [participle, past], rained pitchforks [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*|head=rain pitchforks}} rain pitchforks (third-person singular simple present rains pitchforks, present participle raining pitchforks, simple past and past participle rained pitchforks)
  1. (idiomatic) to rain heavily. Tags: idiomatic Synonyms: rain cats and dogs
    Sense id: en-rain_pitchforks-en-verb-ga5k9A7p Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for rain pitchforks meaning in English (1.7kB)

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          "text": "“What there is no question of is”, said Linette, “that my poor frock will be spoiled. It is going to rain pitchforks. There will be water enough to drown you before we reach the house, and your mites of shoes will be lost; but come along”.",
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