Verb: rain buckets
Usage: informal
Usage: informal
- Rain heavily
"Put on your rain coat— it's raining buckets outside!";
- pour, pelt, rain cats and dogs [informal], belt down [informal], pelt down [informal], bucket [Brit, informal], teem [informal], tip [Brit, informal], chuck it down [Brit, informal], chuck [Brit, informal]
Derived forms: raining buckets, rains buckets, rained buckets