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like a cow on a flat rock

like a cow on a flat rock adverb: heavily, copiously, with a great deluge.

Adverb

like a cow on a flat rock (not comparable)

  1. (US, pissing, etc) Heavily, copiously, with a great deluge.
    • "I better shake a leg before them clouds cut loose like a cow on a flat rock."1974, Harold F. Warren, A Right Good People, page 87
    • The rain alone could have been tolerated. The skies opened torrentially every morning, afternoon, evening and night. “Like a cow on a flat rock,” old Navy hands said. In between the sun shone and generated steam wherever water lay. Men's shirts were never dry save for one fleeting instant when the...1983, James A. Michener, Tales of the South Pacific, page 338

Examples of like a cow on a flat rock in a sentence

  • “Like a cow on a flat rock,” old Navy hands said.1983, James A. Michener, Tales of the South Pacific, page 338:
  • I had to pee like a cow on a flat rock, but I wasn't getting down [off the top of the refrigerator] until she either put the demon [dog] outside or shot him with a tranquilizer dart.2014, Linda Lael Miller, Deadly Gamble, page 145:
  • "At six [in the] morning, he's pissing like a cow on a flat rock, and at seven he's shitting like a wild elephant." "So what is the problem?" "He doesn't wake until eight!" "Ah!"2019, Ian Wood, Merde on the Orient Express:
  • The other was holding her pants out of the way, because she was pissing like a cow on a flat rock, and the flat rock was Buck's WELCOME mat.2010, Ben E. Terry, Dancing with the Devil, page 9:

Origin of like a cow on a flat rock

See like a cow pissing on a flat rock for other similar terms.

Questions about like a cow on a flat rock

What does like a cow on a flat rock mean?
Like a cow on a flat rock means heavily, copiously, with a great deluge.
How do you use like a cow on a flat rock in a sentence?
“Like a cow on a flat rock,” old Navy hands said.
What part of speech is like a cow on a flat rock?
Like a cow on a flat rock is an adverb.

Words near like a cow on a flat rock in the dictionary

  1. like a chicken on a June bug
  2. like a chicken with its head cut off
  3. like a chicken with its head off
  4. like a chicken with no head
  5. like a chicken with the pip
  6. like a cow on a flat rock
  7. like a cow pissing on a flat rock
  8. like a demon
  9. like a dog after a bone
  10. like a dog in heat
  11. like a dog on heat

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