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    chucking it down

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    chucking it down

    [phrase]
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    So you've no other eye witnesses except for the mystery caller? - That's right. It was chucking it down, so the usual dog walkers and drunks would have been head down and hurrying... Val McDermid, Blue genes, p. 317
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    I assume that in this phare it means it was heavily raining, but I wonder whether it is normally used in this meaning, or whether the author took the liberty to extend the meaning "to vomit"?
    Author ralph_4 (1170923) 26 Dec 16, 15:10
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    I've never heard of it. It sounds like some kind of slang, or considering the author, maybe some Scottish dialect thing.
    You could say "It was (really) coming down (hard)" to mean it's raining, so maybe this is similar? Just guessing.
    #1Author wupper (354075) 26 Dec 16, 15:18
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    Es geht ums Wetter, wie von wupper vermutet  (BE)
    Enjoy the weather while it lasts - it’s going to chuck it down on Saturday

    To chuck it down :to rain heavily

    #2Author wienergriessler (925617) 26 Dec 16, 15:20
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    "chucking it down" (raining hard) is absolutely idiomatic in BE (speaking for SE England).
    #3Authormikefm (760309) 26 Dec 16, 16:30
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    It sounds like a good candidate for New Entry. :-)
    #4Author wupper (354075) 26 Dec 16, 16:43
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    #5AuthorBion (1092007) 26 Dec 16, 17:37
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    Danke an alle, auch für die Hinweise zum Gebrauch des Forum(s).
    #6Author ralph_4 (1170923) 29 Dec 16, 17:36
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    Support #3 mikefm
    The usage is idiomatic throughout the UK. Perfectly normal way of describing the weather. It's not slang or dialect.
    #7Author eilthireach (1024673) 29 Dec 16, 19:42
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    So why doesn't one of you BE speakers go ahead and make a New Entry for it? (-:
    #8Author hm -- us (236141) 30 Dec 16, 01:28
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    @hm--us: So why doesn't one of you BE speakers go ahead and make a New Entry for it? (-:
    Because, as the linked threads in #5 show, this has been discussed a number of times and suggestions, including "to bucket down", have been made and amply supported by dictionary definitions, but evidently ignored by the Leo dictionary team, so why should we bother?
    #9Author Anne(gb) (236994) 30 Dec 16, 01:52
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    Oh, good heavens -- I doubt they meant to ignore the BE suggestions, but having them in a thread titled by an evidently less-known regional German verb ('gallern') might have made them easier to overlook. And the other two threads weren't in New Entry.

    I'll see if I can do anything about it without totally starting over from scratch. Maybe it would suffice to use some of these links as supporting evidence.
    #10Author hm -- us (236141) 30 Dec 16, 02:13
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    hm--us: I was just editing my last post to say that I should perhaps mention that I have been totally disillusioned with Leo's treatment of new entries for some time now. I might send you a PM about it. By all means, go ahead with a new entry, though I personally think you'll be wasting your time...:-).
    #11Author Anne(gb) (236994) 30 Dec 16, 02:37
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    Well, I didn't try to make a whole new thread, but I think by now enough of you whom Doris knows to be reliable have commented in the various threads that this time it may be sufficient.

    I still think there's a possibility that it was just an oversight, since both times the additional suggestion could have passed unnoticed in the middle of a much longer discussion. One of the cases where, as Doris herself has said in the past, she appreciates someone just reminding her. Maybe I'll put a note in the reminder thread too.


    PS: But apparently she's under the weather at the moment. /-:

    related discussion: Adventskalender 2016 - #21
    #12Author hm -- us (236141) 30 Dec 16, 03:20
     
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