You must log in or # to comment.
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
“It’s Raining Men” and “Let The Bodies Hit The Floor” are actually one song
Yup! Just told from very different perspectives.
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!
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 ma’am”
Are people fucking this cereal or do we have wildly different interpretations as to what “wham, bam, thank you ma’am” means?
While you are correct, I feel it’s important to point out how lately you’ve been missing your ‘outside enrichments’…
Polish: “Under the dog weather”
That Belgian version doesn’t sound right. Never heard.or seen that one.
I love how sometimes language unites us and sometimes it makes us humorously question the sanity of anyone too different from us 😄
Swedish:
It’s raining so much…
You misspelled småspik.
It’s raining nails!
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)
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.
J’ai pris la saucé 😁
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.
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
Es regnet Bindfäden.
Okay I’ve lived in Germany all my life and never heard that. Is it a regional expression?
It hailed in Vienna yesterday, does that count?
deleted by creator
In romanian, its “its raining with the bucket”
There is also “raining like pouring from a bucket”, in Finnish (“sataa kuin saavista kaatamalla”).
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.
Slovaks use “wheelbarrows” not tractors
I have been to Slovakia and never heard anything like that (wheelbarrows or tractors). How common is it?
Czechs say wheelbarrows too, specifically the open ones that cannot carry liquids without loading them with buckets. In fact, our way of saying them (trakař) is easier to confuse with Tracker (German for tractor) than the Slovak tragáč, the latter coming clearly from German tragen (carry). Not to be confused with the more common sheet metal wheelbarow, which is kolečko (Bohemian) / tůčko (Moravian) / fúrik (Slovak).
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.
Norwegian here. Never heard the troll one before. Might be from a different part of the country. We have a lot of other sayings about rain though.
I’ve heard it used on snow, but never rain.
Det regner trollkjerringer
It’s raining like a troll’s jerking it?
“Dat regnar så på Bergen” should be an expression
