stå som spön i backen

Swedish

Etymology

Literally, "stand like whips in the ground", referring to how heavy rain at a distance can look like a mass of vertical lines.

Verb

stå som spön i backen

  1. rain cats and dogs (to rain very heavily)

Synonyms
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