pelt down

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pelt down

To come down from the sky very forcefully and in great amounts. The rain has been pelting down for almost a week straight! I'm surprised our car wasn't damaged from the way that hail was pelting down.

pelt down (on someone or something)

[for something] to fall down on someone or something hard or in quantity. (Typically rain, hail, sleet, stones, etc.) The rain pelted down on the children as they ran to their school bus. The ashes from the volcanic eruption pelted down on the town, covering the houses in a gray shroud.

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Tries could be at a premium in an opening match fraught with tension - Wales must win and their skipper, Rob Howley, says he is nervous at the prospect of playing in front of a 72,500 crowd - and the weather, should it pelt down in Cardiff this afternoon, is hardly going to help matters.

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Just get the beast in you out of the closet, pelt down to the shops, go home and let the cat out of the bag

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It had all been going so well for the Magpies and Gullit after Kieron Dyer fired Newcastle ahead but, as the rain continued to pelt down, with 26 minutes left Niall Quinn found the net before Kevin Phillips bagged what proved to be the winner.

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He's a 100 per center and it was typical that he pulled his hamstring going full pelt down the wing.

Kelly will be a big loss

The next thing you know he's running full pelt down the street, weaving in and out of stunned onlookers, to get to an address where a Royal python has got stuck under a fridge.

Rhys-diculous!

But on the third expedition one cameraman caught precision shots of the animal running full pelt down an almost vertical mountain face in pursuit of a mountain goat meal.

Out of this world

All I can remember is running full pelt down the wing and Cleland's shoulder smacking me on the side of the head and knocking me out.

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Upon leaving the building, they were unable to find a carriage to take them home, and rain began to pelt down.

The Banshee

I SEE the morons on bikes are still hurtling full pelt down Northumberland Street, dodging the pedestrians in some sort of daredevil game.

Vent your spleen

Then huge hailstones started to pelt down and my husband Joe went out to get the cat.

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I can still remember my neighbour rushing in, heart in mouth, exclaiming: "She's riding with no hands again, full pelt down the street.