| gießen; schütten {vi} [meteo.] | | | to pour; to team down; to teem with rain |
1. | gießend; schüttend | | 1. | pouring; teaming down; teeming with rain |
2. | gegossen; geschüttet | | 2. | poured; teamed down; teemed with rain |
3. | Draußen schüttet es/gießt es in Strömen. | | 3. | It's pouring/teeming (with rain) outside.; The rain is pouring/teeming down outside. |
4. | Es hat nur so geschüttet. | | 4. | It pelted with rain. |
5. | Es regnet/gießt in Strömen.; Es schüttet.; Es schauert. [Nordwestdt.]; Es hudelt. [Schw.]; Es gießt/schüttet wie aus Eimern [Dt.]/aus Kübeln [Dt.] [Schw.]/aus Schaffeln [Bayr.] [Ös.]; Es regnet Bindfäden. [Dt.] [Schw.]; Es regnet Schusterjungen. [Berlin]; Es regnet Schusterbuben. [Bayr.] [Ös.]; Es pladdert wie wenn eine Kuh das Wasser läßt. [Norddt.]; Es plästert, was das Zeug hält. [Mittelwestdt.] | | 5. | It's raining cats and dogs.; It's pouring (with rain [Br.]).; It's bucketing down (with rain [Br.]).; It's bucketing it down. [Br.]; It's chucking it down (with rain). [Br.]; It's tipping down (with rain). [Br.]; It's tipping it down. [Br.]; It's pelting down with rain. [Br.]; It's raining stair rods. [Br.]; The rain is coming down in stair rods. [Br.]; It's pissing down with rain [Br.] [vulg.]; It's pouring rain. [Am.]; It's raining buckets. [Am.] |