Cántaro in english
Pitcher
pronunciation: pɪtʃɜr part of speech: noun
pronunciation: pɪtʃɜr part of speech: noun
In gestures
cántaro = pitcher.
Example: It refers to the story of the milkmaid who planned what to do with the money she would get for her milk, but dropped the pitcher on the way to market.more:
» a cántaros = cats and dogs [Generalmente referido a la lluvia] .
Example: It was hailing cats and dogs the other day, and I was still tailgated by a moron in a large SUV (sport utilitarian vehicle).» llover a cántaros = rain + cats and dogs ; tip it down with + rain ; pelt (it down) with + rain ; chuck it down (with rain) ; piss + it down with rain ; lash it down with + rain ; teem with + rain ; hammer + it down with rain ; the heavens + open ; rain + pour down ; pour down ; pour down with + rain ; be coming down in buckets ; the heavens + let loose ; bucket it down (with rain) ; pelt it down ; be pissing it down (with rain) ; be pissing it down (with rain) ; rain + stair rods ; rain + come down + in/like stair rods ; rain + pitchforks ; rain + buckets ; rain + torrents ; rain + come down + in buckets ; rain + come down + by the bucketful ; rain by + the bucketful .
Example: Two years in a row now it has rained cats and dogs leading up to this event. Example: When they left it was tipping it down with rain, with bolts of lightning all around them, but on Sunday they woke up to glorious sunshine. Example: When we were in sight of Kew Gardens it suddenly pelted it down with rain so heavy the window wipers couldn't cope. Example: The bad news from Durban is that it's chucking it down with rain and I can't see us starting on time. Example: What Coleridge was getting at is that here in Manchester it constantly pisses it down with rain. Example: It doesn't really matter which day of the week it is, or if it's lashing it down with rain, sleet or snow, there's always going to be a crowd. Example: Whatever the fiord's mood, teeming with rain or with sun glistening on deep water, it will inspire you. Example: She woke up and was greeted by a gray sky that decided to hammer it down with rain the second she got out of the house. Example: These are some of the shots I took before the heavens opened and we bolted for the car. Example: While the rain poured down, the course never became unplayable because of unseasonably dry weather over the winter in San Diego. Example: It poured down just after 9:30pm and the roads were like rivers. Example: Perhaps inevitably as soon as the washing was hanging up, the sky darkened and it started to pour down with rain. Example: For about the last month we've had rain almost every day and some of it was coming down in buckets. Example: Then the heavens let loose and people sought shelter anywhere and everywhere they could. Example: It was another five hour journey, and despite being summer, it bucketed it down with rain for at least two hours of that. Example: Unfortunately when we arrived at the football ground for our cup tie, it was pelting it down and the referee called the match off. Example: The day when we arrived it was pissing it down with rain, so we were stuck in our hostel. Example: The day when we arrived it was pissing it down with rain, so we were stuck in our hostel. Example: If it's not blowing a gale and raining stair rods then it's three foot of snow and minus three... which isn't bad for a British summer!. Example: He hadn't a clue what the time was and the rain was coming down like stair rods. Example: It was raining pitchforks with the tines down, and it was no good walking unless you had fins. Example: It's raining buckets again today, so as soon as we get more sun breaks, I'll head back out. Example: On Saturday it was cold and raining torrents but people showed up. Example: I woke up to the wind howling and the rain coming down in buckets, and from all indications, it's going to continue along those lines most of the day. Example: The time of year has come upon us where the darkness sets in a little earlier every evening and the rain comes down by the bucketful. Example: It was raining by the bucketful and when I came home my pants were dripping water for ages.» lluvia a cántaros = pouring rain ; rain by the bucketful ; pouring driving rain .
Example: And no matter how set everyone is to have a good time, it is difficult to do more than make the cheerful best of things if the picnic is held, for some crazy reason, on a stinking garbage dump in pouring rain. Example: It started on Friday with abysmal weather howling wind and rain by the bucketful. Example: He excused himself because he was snivelling a bit as a result of sitting outside on Sunday for five hours in pouring driving rain, freezing his nuts off.