Idiom
rain buckets
Meaning
To rain heavily
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“It is raining buckets outside right now.”
“We had to cancel the outdoor picnic because it started raining buckets in the afternoon.”
“Although the weather forecast promised clear skies, it began raining buckets just as the wedding ceremony commenced in the garden.”
Examples
simple
“It is raining buckets outside right now.”
contextual
“We had to cancel the outdoor picnic because it started raining buckets in the afternoon.”
complex
“Although the weather forecast promised clear skies, it began raining buckets just as the wedding ceremony commenced in the garden.”
Origin
From the figurative sense of water pouring from buckets, as if the contents of several vessels were being emptied simultaneously.
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