Lluvia lluvia lluvia!
Rain seems to be a topic at the moment and I was wonderdering how many different sayings , there are for describing how hard it is raining,for instance in England we say that it is raining cats and dogs. Also, here in Spain we have sayings that go with the rain,like;es bueno para los patosores bueno para el pelo (hair) or even es buena para los huesos en el cemetario.What do you say in your part of the world when it is raining and what other sayings do you use?
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I cannot believe someone has not added this one yet!
It's raining cats and dogs.
This phrase comes from old England when the road system was mostly dirt roads and they generally had large potholes in them. The dogs and cats in that day were allowed to run free and would fall into the potholes when navigating the rain-soaked roads. Thus people would joke with each other when they saw a dog or cat land in a rain-filled pothole and say "It's raining cats and dogs!"
My Grandmother always called a hard rain a "gully washer."
I do not know how to translate it. barranco lavar ? ? ?
The rhyme: It's raining, It's pouring, the old man is snoring
He bumped his head and went to bed and couldn't get up in the morning.
I guess it is actually a little morbid, but then again, most children rhymes are!
Que llueva! Que llueva! La vieja está en la cueva!
Lloviendo a cántaros aquí en la costa del Pacífico del estado de Jalisco, México...una tormenta sin igual para esta estación...Que es lo que sucede con el tiempo? Ese "niño" está muy mal educado, ¿no?
My dad, from Oklahoma, always calls a heavy rain a "toad strangler". I'm really not sure how to translate that! Anyone? Estrangulador de sapas? Ahogador de sapas?
In France they say "il pleut des cordes" which literally means in English "it's raining ropes". Pretty interesting.
I have heard another one about the saying "its raining cats and dogs", I was told it was from houndreds of years ago, when people used to have thatched roofs. The cats and dogs would go into the roof, to keep warm. Then of course when it started raining really hard, sometimes parts of the roof would fall through- and the cats and dogs would fall through with it! Hence, raining cats and dogs.
In the Northwest of the United States it starts raining in November and stops in May. Since it rains so much the forecasters have to use phrases such as "rain, turning to showers," to make it sound like something different is happening. If they think there is a chance of seeing the sun, they will say, "We may experience sun-breaks tomorrow."
LLueve a mares. LLueve a cántaros.-
Madrid:
Cae más que cuando enterraron a Zafra.
Caen chuzos de punta.
Está cayendo la intemerata.
Está cayendo que para qué.
Está diluviando
Asturias:
Está jarreando.
In the southwestern US it is so dry that at times the rain does not reach the ground.You see the moisture hanging the rain like drapery until it evaporates.
People call it La Manga. I have also heard of something called ?virga? for a similar appearance but did not find it defined.
Nunca llueve, pero vierte. It never rains, but it pours.=If it can go wrong, it will.
Una lluvia cae lentamente
Y te llora las mejillas al reír
Dentro del oscuro mediodía
Moretones amplios hunden el sol
Arboles en llanto lavan el alquitrán
Donde van los hombres corren sin ver
Buscan una casa donde secar su piel
Donde va la gente cuando llueve
Siempre hay un lugar donde parar
Tierna mujercita sumergida
En las aguas de mi brazo torrencial
Beso mucha lluvia en tu sonrisa
Hay un arco iris tierno y precoz
En el abanico de tu pestaña gris
Ves aquellos hombres corren sin ver
Buscan una casa donde cambiar su piel
Donde va la gente cuando llueve
Donde los que no tienen lugar
Donde van donde van...
Donde la señora de arpillera
Donde el chico del harapo y arrabal
Donde los profetas de botellas
Una chimenea fuma su paz
Sobre la terraza que ellos jamás tendrán
Vamos a la lluvia niña de sol
Ves que todos corren pero no todos van
No todos van
Donde va la gente cuando llueve
Donde van aquellos que no van
Donde van donde van..
La lluvia
Bruscamente la tarde se ha aclarado
porque ya cae la lluvia minuciosa.
Cae o cayó. La lluvia es una cosa
que sin duda sucede en el pasado.
Quien la oye caer ha recobrado
el tiempo en que la suerte venturosa
le reveló una flor llamada rosa
y el curioso color del colorado.
Esta lluvia que ciega los cristales
alegrará en perdidos arrabales
las negras uvas de una parra en cierto
patio que ya no existe. La mojada
tarde me trae la voz, la voz deseada,
de mi padre que vuelve y que no ha muerto.
J.L. Borges
Siempre que llovió, paró.
Llueves a baldazos
llueve como si no hubiese mañana
Llueve como si fuera la última vez
Llueven barretas de punta
Llueve a raudales
LLueve que da gusto
Llueve que da calambre
Está lloviendo a baldes!!
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"Que llueva que llueva, la vieja está en la cueva, los pajaritos cantan, la vieja se levanta, que sí, que no, que caiga un chaparrón, dabajo del colchón con agua y jabón"
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jajajajjaa... this is funny
I'm not sure how you would say this in spanish, I think it's a kind of made up verb jeje but it's what we say up here in Scotland.
It's bucketing it down outside!
