In French we usually say it's raining ropes, the listed expression exists but is vulgar so we use it a lot less.
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That honestly sounds more vulgar, or at least in English it does. Do you have the expression of "shooting rope" cause that's what I think of, or maybe I just have a dirty mind.
“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?
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I love how sometimes language unites us and sometimes it makes us humorously question the sanity of anyone too different from us 😄
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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).
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.
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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.
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frogs or "like from a pot" (polish)
what the hell happened to esteri to get that honor
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kuin_Esterin_perseest%C3%A4
One urban legend has it that Esteri was the goddess of rain in pre-Christian Finland, but in fact the name is of Biblical origin. Another folk etymology suggests the phrase derives from Esteri, a brand of water pumps used by fire brigades.
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.
Pipe sticks (The Netherlands) (het regent pijpenstelen)
Other option: tuberculosis hard. (het regent tering hard)
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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?
In romanian, its "its raining with the bucket"
There is also "raining like pouring from a bucket", in Finnish ("sataa kuin saavista kaatamalla").
Swedish:
It's raining so much...
You misspelled småspik.
It's raining nails!
Fun fact: when it's raining, but the sun is shining, we say the Devil is beating his wife. Southeast USA, btw. I can see how some of these sayings came to be, but this one has never, ever made sense to me.
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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?
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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
What did the Slovakians say before tractors were invented?
why do you think tractors were invented?
Luckily, tractors and the first instance of rain arrived in Slovakia on the very same day.
Very arid country with exhausted draft horses until that day.
It's raining.
- Slovaks before tractors were invented
as @username@leminal.space said, slovaks use “wheelbarrows” not tractors
"It's raining tractors" sounds like a way better song than that one about tacos.
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