Q-Eng

Hi Earth-san,
You've introduced another interesting subject! I like the Japanese expressions that you've shared, especially 「バケツをひっくり返したような雨」.
In English, I've heard "raining in buckets" but I haven't heard "bucket down" before. A very common phrase for heavy rain is "raining cats and dogs".

untmdsprt のコメント：
I've only heard of "buckle down" and it doesn't have anything to do with rain.

へぇ～　勉強になりました。面白い。(^_^)

I do see "bucket down" in the dictionary the way you've mentioned, but I've never actually heard it myself. The closest I've ever heard is "raining buckets", such as, "It's raining buckets outside!" Even that is pretty rare though, I think. At least, it is where I live.

今気付きましたが・・・土砂降り以外の日本語の表現を知りませんでしたｗ。

多分方言だとは思いますが、私は「バケツをひっくり返したような雨」の時は「ざざぶり」と描写しています。「うわ、ざざぶり！洗濯物干せないじゃん！」

最近は異常気象で有名になった「ゲリラ豪雨」を一番頻繁に使う気がします。今年の夏も熱帯のスコールの様な雨が多かったですよね～！

Friends! Thank you so much for your useful comments.

Well, "It's pouring." is most common, isn't it? And "It's raining hard/heavily." is also common, isn't it?
I learned "It's raining cats and dogs" at school very very long ago, and I've thought this is very common. A dictionary showes "It's comming down in buckets." Therefore I thought this was a popular expression, too.

Reading your comments, I was very surprised, and enjoyed. Your English and English showed by dictionary has some difference. Of course I know that, and expressions in dictionaries follow after English used by you. The most difficult thing is I can't know which of them is most common and which is rare.

Frieds, I'm very glad you gave me pretty useful comments. When I find this kind of subjects, I'm going to write journals again. I would be very happy if you would give me comments like these then. And you find any questions about Japanse, please ask me. Exchanging comments are very useful for our studying, and that's very imteresting.

Friends: native English speakers.
I think I should explain Japanese expressions about "pouring" in Japanese I showed.

日本人の皆さん、説明がおかしかったら、もしくはそちらの地域では違う言い方をしている場合はコメントしてください。よろしくお願いします。

土砂降り：very common （I think this is most common.)

ザーザー降り（ぶり）：very common (casual and used in daily conversation)

篠突く雨：very rare, very old-fashioned, sometimes used in Japanese historical novels (I like the sound of this expression. It sounds beautiful.)

車軸を流す雨・車軸を流すような雨・車軸を流すように降る雨：very rare, rigid expression from Chinese language, sometimes used in historical novels

桶の底が抜けたような大雨：very rare, old-fashioned (I know this, but I've never used this.)