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Pours as if from a broomhandle
Estonian. No, it doesn’t make sense here either.
The fuck kind of rain are they getting in Greece?
Just adding one more, in spanish it’s raining from jugs (“cántaro”, more like an amphora, never used this old word outside of this expression)
I personally don’t use this expression anymore. My family and I now only say something my brother came up with because we find it hilarious: it’s a rain so hard it’s like two rains
What is it in German?
It pours like buckets
“It’s raining twines/threads/strings” also works, but that’s reserved for somewhat strong, sustained rain. “Buckets” is obviously the escalation of that.
What would “it’s raining threads” be on German? I’m not familiar with that term
It hailed in Vienna yesterday, does that count?
Nigh-incomprehensible, probably 🤷🏻
Swedish:
It’s raining so much…
You misspelled småspik.
It’s raining nails!
Brazil: Canivetes (pocket knives)
pé d’água caindo o céu entre outros
Canivete aberto (open pocket knives) for emphasis, if it’s really strong rain.
“It’s Raining Men” and “Let The Bodies Hit The Floor” are actually one song
Yup! Just told from very different perspectives.
In romanian, its “its raining with the bucket”
Serbian: It’s pouring like from a hose/cable
(we say “cable”, but since the word is from a pre electricity age, hose is the actual meaning of)
(not very creative, I know, but keep in mind, hoses were for fancy rich people here at some point)
Reminds me of the Rice Krispies onomatopoeic noises in different languages:
English: Snap! Crackle! Pop! Danish: Pif! Paf! Puf! Swedish: Piff! Paff! Puff! German: Knisper! Knasper! Knusper! Spanish: Pim! Pam! Pum! Finnish: Riks! Raks! Poks! French: Cric! Crac! Croc! Dutch: Pif! Paf! Pof! Afrikaans: Knap! Knetter! Knak! Belgium: Poos! Pas! Pes!I had no idea that vowel progression (I A O/U) was so common in European languages. Interesting!
Polish: “Under the dog weather”
That Belgian version doesn’t sound right. Never heard.or seen that one.
Interesting that English is the only language where this isn’t alliterative.
I think the list is kind of intentionally misleading to provide that assumption.
The non-English ones are all translations of whatever that language uses as its onomatopoeia that represents any quick succession of sounds.
In English, Snap Crackle Pop is most known as the slogan of Rice Krispies cereal. The saying was not common speech in English until 1932, when the then-5-year-old brand used the phrase in radio jingles for the first time.
The universal English equivalent to any of those would probably be something more like “bang bang bang”. Or in British English they say “bish bash bosh” which would be a true direct translation. In American English we dropped that saying, so our closest equivalent would probably be “wham, bam, thank you mam”
While you are correct, I feel it’s important to point out how lately you’ve been missing your ‘outside enrichments’…
I love how sometimes language unites us and sometimes it makes us humorously question the sanity of anyone too different from us 😄
In France we have a few more:
Il pleut des cordes (It’s raining ropes) Il pleut à sceau (It’s raining buckets) Il tombe des hallebardes (it’s raining halberds)
I’m also quite partial to “on s’est fait saucer”, literally “we got sauced”, which refers to getting soaked in the rain.
We also use nails sometimes (il pleut des clous)
J’ai pris la saucé 😁
Do French people generally know what a Halberd is? Because I think at least in Canada only RPG nerds and medieval history nerds have ever heard that word before…
The French do know how to decapitate heads. Usually they use a guillotine, but I guess they also know a halbard for when the guillotine is out of order.
The halberd expression I’ve only personally heard once from my wife who is a walking French expression generator. There’s a new one every other day. I generally hear the rope expression used a lot more.
According to this expression it’s “frequent” but no idea what that means: https://www.lesexpressions.fr/expression/il-tombe-des-hallebardes
Au Québec on dit encore “Pleuvoir à siaux”, bien que c’est le seul temps qu’on utilise encore cette vieille forme du mot sceaux. Par contre, jamais entendu l’expression des vaches ou des hallebardes
L’expression des vaches est assez fréquente en France mais très vulgaire donc on ne l’utilise pas aussi souvent que pleuvoir des cordes par exemple.
Pipe sticks (The Netherlands) (het regent pijpenstelen)
Other option: tuberculosis hard. (het regent tering hard)
More like pipe stems, no? As in the stems of pipes for smoking tobacco.
Also used: it’s dog weather (het is hondenweer)
Pijp is (ook) een oud woord voor buis.Een regenpijp is een afvoerbuis van een dakgoot bijvoorbeeld. Een orgel heeft pijpen, een mergelpijp (of mergpijp) is een stuk bot gevuld met beenmerg.
In lokaal dialect is een rietje ook een “peppeke” (pijpje).
I was thinking about broomstick stelen. But yeah, ‘stem’ makes sense.
Hondenweer technically is about the weather in general, not rain specifically. A snow blizzard or a storm can also be hondenweer.
frogs or “like from a pot” (polish)
Is there something about troll squirting that only the Norwegians know about?
Honestly I’ve only heard the expression used on snow, not rain. So it wouldn’t be a troll squirting, it would be huge, mean trolls falling from the sky.
Fun fact: when it’s raining, but the sun is shining, we say the Devil is beating his wife. Southeast USA, btw. I can see how some of these sayings came to be, but this one has never, ever made sense to me.
We say it’s carnival in hell or demon’s carnaval.
Duveltjeskermis
In France, I believe they say that he’s beating his wife and marrying his daughter. Very interesting.
It makes me feel better that we’re not the only ones. Maybe there’s some kind of common thread. There were a lot of French Protestant immigrants here in South Carolina prior to the American Revolution.
