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“It’s Raining Men” and “Let The Bodies Hit The Floor” are actually one song
Yup! Just told from very different perspectives.
Reminds me of the Rice Krispies onomatopoeic noises in different languages:
English: Snap! Crackle! Pop! Danish: Pif! Paf! Puf! Swedish: Piff! Paff! Puff! German: Knisper! Knasper! Knusper! Spanish: Pim! Pam! Pum! Finnish: Riks! Raks! Poks! French: Cric! Crac! Croc! Dutch: Pif! Paf! Pof! Afrikaans: Knap! Knetter! Knak! Belgium: Poos! Pas! Pes!Interesting that English is the only language where this isn’t alliterative.
While you are correct, I feel it’s important to point out how lately you’ve been missing your ‘outside enrichments’…
I love how sometimes language unites us and sometimes it makes us humorously question the sanity of anyone too different from us 😄
I had no idea that vowel progression (I A O/U) was so common in European languages. Interesting!
Polish: “Under the dog weather”
That Belgian version doesn’t sound right. Never heard.or seen that one.
Slovaks use “wheelbarrows” not tractors
Czechs say wheelbarrows too, specifically the open ones that cannot carry liquids without loading them with buckets. In fact, our way of saying them (trakař) is easier to confuse with Tracker (German for tractor) than the Slovak tragáč, the latter coming clearly from German tragen (carry). Not to be confused with the more common sheet metal wheelbarow, which is kolečko (Bohemian) / tůčko (Moravian) / fúrik (Slovak).
I have been to Slovakia and never heard anything like that (wheelbarrows or tractors). How common is it?
In France we have a few more:
Il pleut des cordes (It’s raining ropes) Il pleut à sceau (It’s raining buckets) Il tombe des hallebardes (it’s raining halberds)
I’m also quite partial to “on s’est fait saucer”, literally “we got sauced”, which refers to getting soaked in the rain.
Do French people generally know what a Halberd is? Because I think at least in Canada only RPG nerds and medieval history nerds have ever heard that word before…
The French do know how to decapitate heads. Usually they use a guillotine, but I guess they also know a halbard for when the guillotine is out of order.
The halberd expression I’ve only personally heard once from my wife who is a walking French expression generator. There’s a new one every other day. I generally hear the rope expression used a lot more.
According to this expression it’s “frequent” but no idea what that means: https://www.lesexpressions.fr/expression/il-tombe-des-hallebardes
Au Québec on dit encore “Pleuvoir à siaux”, bien que c’est le seul temps qu’on utilise encore cette vieille forme du mot sceaux. Par contre, jamais entendu l’expression des vaches ou des hallebardes
L’expression des vaches est assez fréquente en France mais très vulgaire donc on ne l’utilise pas aussi souvent que pleuvoir des cordes par exemple.
We also use nails sometimes (il pleut des clous)
J’ai pris la saucé 😁
Norwegian here. Never heard the troll one before. Might be from a different part of the country. We have a lot of other sayings about rain though.
Det regner trollkjerringer
It’s raining like a troll’s jerking it?
I’ve heard it used on snow, but never rain.
“Dat regnar så på Bergen” should be an expression
what the hell happened to esteri to get that honor
frogs or “like from a pot” (polish)
Brazil: Canivetes (pocket knives)
pé d’água caindo o céu entre outros
Is there something about troll squirting that only the Norwegians know about?
Honestly I’ve only heard the expression used on snow, not rain. So it wouldn’t be a troll squirting, it would be huge, mean trolls falling from the sky.
In romanian, its “its raining with the bucket”
There is also “raining like pouring from a bucket”, in Finnish (“sataa kuin saavista kaatamalla”).
Pours as if from a broomhandle
Estonian. No, it doesn’t make sense here either.
Pipe sticks (The Netherlands) (het regent pijpenstelen)
Other option: tuberculosis hard. (het regent tering hard)
More like pipe stems, no? As in the stems of pipes for smoking tobacco.
Also used: it’s dog weather (het is hondenweer)
I was thinking about broomstick stelen. But yeah, ‘stem’ makes sense.
Hondenweer technically is about the weather in general, not rain specifically. A snow blizzard or a storm can also be hondenweer.
Pijp is (ook) een oud woord voor buis.Een regenpijp is een afvoerbuis van een dakgoot bijvoorbeeld. Een orgel heeft pijpen, een mergelpijp (of mergpijp) is een stuk bot gevuld met beenmerg.
In lokaal dialect is een rietje ook een “peppeke” (pijpje).
The fuck kind of rain are they getting in Greece?
What did the Slovakians say before tractors were invented?
Luckily, tractors and the first instance of rain arrived in Slovakia on the very same day.
Very arid country with exhausted draft horses until that day.
It’s raining.
- Slovaks before tractors were invented
as @username@leminal.space said, slovaks use “wheelbarrows” not tractors
What is it in German?
It pours like buckets
“It’s raining twines/threads/strings” also works, but that’s reserved for somewhat strong, sustained rain. “Buckets” is obviously the escalation of that.
What would “it’s raining threads” be on German? I’m not familiar with that term
Es regnet Bindfäden.
Okay I’ve lived in Germany all my life and never heard that. Is it a regional expression?
It hailed in Vienna yesterday, does that count?
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