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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.
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?
what the hell happened to esteri to get that honor
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kuin_Esterin_perseestä
One urban legend has it that Esteri was the goddess of rain in pre-Christian Finland, but in fact the name is of Biblical origin. Another folk etymology suggests the phrase derives from Esteri, a brand of water pumps used by fire brigades.
frogs or “like from a pot” (polish)
Brazil: Canivetes (pocket knives)
pé d’água caindo o céu entre outros
Canivete aberto (open pocket knives) for emphasis, if it’s really strong rain.
Pipe sticks (The Netherlands) (het regent pijpenstelen)
Other option: tuberculosis hard. (het regent tering hard)
In romanian, its “its raining with the bucket”
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Is there something about troll squirting that only the Norwegians know about?
We say it’s raining pipe ends.
Pours as if from a broomhandle
Estonian. No, it doesn’t make sense here either.
Just adding one more, in spanish it’s raining from jugs (“cántaro”, more like an amphora, never used this old word outside of this expression)
I personally don’t use this expression anymore. My family and I now only say something my brother came up with because we find it hilarious: it’s a rain so hard it’s like two rains
Swedish:
It’s raining so much…
You misspelled småspik.
It’s raining nails!
“It’s raining tractors” sounds like a way better song than that one about tacos.
Who tf is Esteri and why does she have such notoriously severe diarrhea?
Apparently the Finnish goddess of rain according to an urban myth that isn’t true 🤷🏻
Interesting read, but I dont see anything noteworthy that has to do with her ass
In French we usually say it’s raining ropes, the listed expression exists but is vulgar so we use it a lot less.
That honestly sounds more vulgar, or at least in English it does. Do you have the expression of “shooting rope” cause that’s what I think of, or maybe I just have a dirty mind.
