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/Sounds like "AH" (as in "art") + "KAHN" (as in "car") + "tah" (as in "tar") + "rohs" (as in "row")/

Meaning

An expression for raining brutally hard, as if buckets were being dumped from the sky. It's the Latin equivalent of 'raining cats and dogs,' and when it actually rains a cántaros, no umbrella in the world is enough to keep you dry. You just give up and accept that you're soaked.

Examples

Don't go out, it's raining buckets.

I arrived drenched because it suddenly poured rain.

Regional synonyms

Meh, neither good nor bad, completely mediocre, generating zero emotional response. In Spain ni fu ni fa is the ultimate shoulder shrug about something utterly unremarkable.