rain buckets

To rain heavily and at great length. It started raining buckets just as I began cycling home. I couldn't wait to spend a week in Hawaii, but of course it rained buckets the whole time we were there.

See also: bucket, rain

See also:

come down in buckets
bucket down
raining cats and dogs, it's
it's raining cats and dogs
rain in on
rain in on (someone or something)
rain on
rain on (someone or something)
rain on someone/something
it's raining harder than a cow peeing on a flat rock

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