Weather Slang
Mexican Weather Slang: How to Talk About Heat, Rain, and Earthquakes
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Add a word/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.”
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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
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