| VERB | weather | rain cats and dogs, pour, pelt, stream, rain buckets | rain heavily |
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| Meaning | rain heavily. | |
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| Pattern | It is ----ing | |
| Model | It was rain cats and dogsing all day long | |
| Synonyms | pour, pelt, stream, rain buckets | |
| Narrower | sheet | come down as if in sheets |
| sluice, sluice down | pour as if from a sluice | |
| Broader | rain, rain down | precipitate as rain |