bucket down

Of rain, to pour down heavily and at great length. It started bucketing down just as I began cycling home. We had great weather last week, but it's been bucketing down all weekend long. It's been bucketing down outside for nearly an hour—that's why we're all in here.

See also: bucket, down

See also:

close down
close down and shut down
come a gutser
be down to (one)
be down to somebody/something
be down to something
be down to (do something)
be down for (something)
bounce up and down
come a cropper

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