In Miami and hit by a drencher? That’s known as a palmetto pounder, where a palmetto is a kind of tropical palm tree. In the mid-Atlantic states, such as Maryland and Virginia, as well as the Lower Mississippi Valley, you might hear trash-mover, and bridge lifter in North Carolina. What is used in California is mud-sender as well as mud rain. (A gully, by the way, is a ditch cut as the result of running water after a downpour.) The usage of the term is widespread except in New England and is less frequently used in the Inland North and the Pacific states of Washington, Oregon, and California. It might also be called a gully-buster, gully-pour, or gully-whopper. GULLY-WASHERĪ gully-washer is “very heavy rain or the runoff it occasions,” according to DARE. Next time you’re caught in a heavy downpour, be sure to shout, “This is a real turd-floater!” a phrase that originated in Texas and Oklahoma. "It's sure to be a goose-drownder today!" someone from the Midland states might say.
Variations include frog-strangler and frog rain. TOAD-STRANGLERĪlso toad-choker, this term for a very heavy rain is used in Gulf States such as Alabama, Louisiana, and eastern Texas, as well as the South Midland. Other amphibians it might rain include frogs, toad-frogs, and tadpoles. Hence, this saying, that might be heard in the South and South Midland. IT’S RAINING BULLFROGSīullfrogs and other amphibians tend to emerge after a heavy rain. Prefer your rain to be mammalian? Go with this idiom from Louisiana. While this particular phrase was found in Florida, variations abound throughout the country, including it’s raining pitchforks (tines downwards) and it’s raining hammer handles (and pitchforks). talk about it? We’ve teamed up with the editors at the Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE) to bring you 11 imaginative regional idioms for heavy rain that go way beyond cats and dogs. You might be up to speed on international idioms to describe heavy rain, but how about the way people across the U.S.
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