rain down

make it rain

To bring prosperity or work to an enterprise by selling, inventing or other productive or successful activity.

Pleasure and pain

[Cockney slang]rain

Both a matter of pleasure for gardeners and pain for sufferers from rheumatism.

rain buckets

To rain heavily

rain cats and dogs

To rain very heavily.

rain death

To cause severe harm or violence.

rain dogs and cats

Alternative form of rain cats and dogs.

rain fire and brimstone

To send horror or destruction.

rain off

to cancel (an event) due to excessive rain