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rain buckets

rain buckets verb: to rain heavily.

Verb

rain buckets (third-person singular simple present rains buckets, present participle raining buckets, simple past and past participle rained buckets)

  1. (idiomatic) To rain heavily
    • After lunching, Caesar went out to post some cards, and as it was raining buckets, he took refuge in the arcades of the Piazza Esedra1923, Pío Baroja, Caesar or Nothing
    • It was still raining buckets when he stepped into his house, even though the worst seemed almost over.2018, Andrea Camilleri, The Pyramid of Mud, Penguin Books, page 167

Synonyms of rain buckets

Forms of rain buckets

third-person singular presentrains buckets
present participleraining buckets
past participlerained buckets
pastrained buckets

Origin of rain buckets

From figurative sense of pouring from buckets.

Questions about rain buckets

What does rain buckets mean?
Rain buckets means to rain heavily.
What part of speech is rain buckets?
Rain buckets is a verb.
What is the past tense of rain buckets?
The past tense of rain buckets is rained buckets.

Words near rain buckets in the dictionary

  1. rain barrels
  2. rain beetle
  3. rain beetles
  4. rain bomb
  5. rain bombs
  6. rain buckets
  7. rain butt
  8. rain butts
  9. rain cats and dogs
  10. rain chamber
  11. rain chambers

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