"līt kā pa Jāņiem" meaning in Latvian

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  "etymology_text": "The literal meaning is “to rain like during Jāņi (Midsummer festivities),” a holiday as important as Christmas, commonly associated with outdoors activities, during which heavy rain is expected.",
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  "lang_code": "lv",
  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "text": "[l]atviešiem jau ir teiciens — līst kā pa Jāņiem (..) [t]ie jau nebūtu nekādi Jāņi, ja nelītu lietus ― latvians have a saying after all — it's raining like during Jāņi (~ Midsummer festivities) it wouldn't be any Jāņi without rain",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "[š]opavasar, kad Parīzē neierasti līst kā pa Jāņiem, šie divi “cilvēki kulisēs” sazvanās gandrīz vai piecas reizes dienā, lai pārliecinātos, “ka viss norit gludi” ― this spring, when unusually for Paris it is raining like during Jāņi, these two “insiders” are calling up each other almost five times a day to make sure that “everything is going smoothly”",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "[ā]rā līst (..) \"[k]ā pa Jāņiem\", gribas sacīt, bet ir jūlija beigas (..) ― it's raining outside (..) \"like during Jāņi\" one wants to proclaim, it's the end of July though (..)",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to come down in sheets, to come down in buckets"
      ],
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        [
          "come down",
          "come down"
        ],
        [
          "sheets",
          "sheets"
        ],
        [
          "buckets",
          "buckets"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) to come down in sheets, to come down in buckets"
      ],
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        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "ipa": "/lîːt kâː pa jāːɲiem/"
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  "word": "līt kā pa Jāņiem"
}

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  "etymology_text": "The literal meaning is “to rain like during Jāņi (Midsummer festivities),” a holiday as important as Christmas, commonly associated with outdoors activities, during which heavy rain is expected.",
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  "lang_code": "lv",
  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "text": "[l]atviešiem jau ir teiciens — līst kā pa Jāņiem (..) [t]ie jau nebūtu nekādi Jāņi, ja nelītu lietus ― latvians have a saying after all — it's raining like during Jāņi (~ Midsummer festivities) it wouldn't be any Jāņi without rain",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "[š]opavasar, kad Parīzē neierasti līst kā pa Jāņiem, šie divi “cilvēki kulisēs” sazvanās gandrīz vai piecas reizes dienā, lai pārliecinātos, “ka viss norit gludi” ― this spring, when unusually for Paris it is raining like during Jāņi, these two “insiders” are calling up each other almost five times a day to make sure that “everything is going smoothly”",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "[ā]rā līst (..) \"[k]ā pa Jāņiem\", gribas sacīt, bet ir jūlija beigas (..) ― it's raining outside (..) \"like during Jāņi\" one wants to proclaim, it's the end of July though (..)",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to come down in sheets, to come down in buckets"
      ],
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          "come down",
          "come down"
        ],
        [
          "sheets",
          "sheets"
        ],
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          "buckets",
          "buckets"
        ]
      ],
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        "(idiomatic) to come down in sheets, to come down in buckets"
      ],
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        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "word": "līt kā pa Jāņiem"
}