ploure a bots i barrals

Catalan
FWOTD – 22 January 2015

Pronunciation
  • (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /ˌplɔw.ɾe.əˌbot.si.bəˈrals/
  • (Valencian) IPA(key): /ˌplɔw.ɾe.aˌbot.si.baˈrals/

Verb

ploure a bots i barrals

  1. (idiomatic) to rain very heavily, to rain cats and dogs (literally “to rain bota bags and barrels”)
    • 2010, Llibert Ferri, Memòria del fred.: Cròniques d'una transició, Editorial Empúries
      Plou a bots i barrals a Moscou des de primera hora del matí d'aquest 10 de maig de 1995.
      It's raining cats and dogs in Moscow since first thing in the morning on this 10th of May, 1995.

Usage notes
  • Usually only used in the third person

Conjugation

See: ploure (“to rain”)

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