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| Toad Choker (A very hard down pour of rain. Пример: "The weather man forcasted a toad choker for the weekend." Franka_LV) | |||
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| cloudburst (a sudden very heavy fall of rain; a sudden heavy rainstorm; a downpour.); soak; driving rain; pelting rain; drencher; drench; soaker; stair rods (идиома Leenx); it is raining pitchforks; torrential rainstorm (Alexey Lebedev); shower (Franky Mьller); downpour (a heavy rainfall Val_Ships); pouring rain; soaking rain | |||
| pounding rain; shower rain; rain shower; storm rain; heavy fall of rain | |||
| torrent (a violent downpour of rain Val_Ships); torrential downpour (с ветром; a violent downpour of rain Val_Ships); legger (Taras) | |||
| poured rain | |||
| turd-floater (Taras) | |||
| pelter; pissing rain (выражение употребляется во вполне приличных источниках) I left my phone outside in the pissing rain. / Anyway, it beat pounding the street in the pissing rain all day or filling in forms. 4uzhoj) | |||
| it is raining pitchforks (It was raining pitchforks and that was a solid excuse for not going out) | |||
| heavy rain | |||
| heavy downpour (during a heavy downpour of rain – в проливной дождь • Heavy downpours can cause flash floods and water pooling on roads. • The area may experience heavy downpours, flash flooding and possible tornadoes. ART Vancouver); rainstorm (Andrey Truhachev); violent rain (Andrey Truhachev); heavy rainfall (Andrey Truhachev) | |||
| downpour | |||
| rain cats and dogs (In the middle of the match, it started to rain cats and dogs. == В середине матча вдруг начался жуткий ливень.) | |||
| torrential rain; pouring rain | |||
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Проливной дождь : 47 phrases in 8 subjects |
| American usage, not spelling | 2 |
| Building structures | 2 |
| Business | 1 |
| Construction | 1 |
| General | 24 |
| Idiomatic | 3 |
| Makarov | 10 |
| Meteorology | 4 |