1990, Douglas Terman, Enemy Territory, Bantam (→ISBN):
Before they hit, the wind picked up. Then the rain came down like a cow pissing on a flat rock. Eventually, the wind would moderate and sometimes even fall slack as the squall passed overhead.
1994, Albert Watson, Woodstock '94: the book, St Martins Pr (→ISBN):
It poured like a cow pissing on a flat rock. Summer thunderstorm in a Catskill cattle pasture with 350,000 Mud People standing in it. Aerosmith was supposed to play at midnight, but midnight came and went. We got the word to go on at 1:15.
1996, David Drake, All the Way to the Gallows, Simon and Schuster (→ISBN), page 288:
It wasn't raining yet, but when it did it was going to come down like a cow pissing on a flat rock. Not that there was a lot of rock in the Desolation of Thaumidor. Or any cows, of course, so far as Jancy could tell.
2000, Chimères:
Offensive odors smelled like "gut wagons," a hard rain sounded "like a cow pissing on a flat rock," and "dying calf in a hailstorm" was the label given anyone who raised hopeful, supplicating eyes to my parents.
2001, Joseph A. West, Johnny Blue and the Hanging Judge, Signet Book (→ISBN):
Johnny Blue groaned like he does when I say something he doesn't agree with, but he followed me outside and I quietly closed the door behind us. The rain was heavier than ever, a steady downpour that hissed like a cow pissing on a flat rock […]
2004, James Corwin, A Grizzly Way to Die, iUniverse (→ISBN):
We hadn't gone a mile before it started to rain, light tentative drops at first, like unsure messengers. Then the lightning started and rent open the clouds. It came down like a cow pissing on a flat rock. We had no slickers and were soon soaked.
2007, Jory Sherman, The Savage Gun, Penguin (→ISBN):
... a line in a high wind. The smell of flour baking and the aroma of bacon wafted to their nostrils. John felt his stomach churn with hunger and he took another sip from his cup. “Yeah, it's going to rain like a cow pissing on a flat rock,” John said.
2010, Larry Chambers, Recondo: LRRPs in the 101st Airborne, Presidio Press (→ISBN), page 114:
The wind was blowing and we could hear the rain start pounding down. It sounded like a cow pissing on a flat rock. The roof of our hooch was an army squad tent. A two-and-a-half foot opening, about shoulder high, ran around the hooch. It had been covered with plastic to keep the rain and wind out.
2011, Dick Fortenberry, No ETA: The Pioneering Days of Skydiving, iUniverse (→ISBN), page 111:
As my friend Saul would say, “It sounded like a cow pissing on a flat rock.” When the rest of the Team arrived, we got right down to briefings on what events were taking place, along with weather briefings and meeting the pilots that would fly […]
2012, C. Carl Roberts, Identity: A John Travers and Wally Karpinski Novel, Abbott Press (→ISBN), page 19:
As he walked into my office he threw me one of his slightly crooked smiles. “Sounds like a cow pissing on a flat rock,” he said, nodding toward the window, against which the rain was relentlessly pounding.
2016, Victoria Vane, Beauty and the Bull Rider, Lyrical Shine (→ISBN):
It was pouring like a cow pissing on a flat rock. Would he show? She didn't know if he would or not, but the cows still had to be fed. Heaving herself out of bed, she threw on her rattiest jeans and a baggy tee and trudged out to the rain-soaked pastures, […]
1995, Donald N. Yates, The Bear Went Over the Mountain: Genealogy and Social History of a Southern U.S. Family, Panther`s Lodge Publishers, page 244:
Rained like a cow pissing on a flat rock.
2006, Dave Marsh, Bruce Springsteen on Tour: 1968-2005, Bloomsbury Publishing USA (→ISBN), page 22:
Tex, a blustering, slope-shouldered man, opened the door to a deluge—“It was raining like a cow pissing on a flat rock.” he liked to say. Standing there he found a soggy, scrawny, pimply fifteen year old holding a guitar.
2007, John Muncie, Jody Jaffe, John Jaffe, Shenandoah Summer, Grand Central Publishing (→ISBN):
"Or as Odie says, 'Like a cow pissing on a flat rock.'" Tug laughed hard at this description, a reaction that gave Alyssa a little jolt of triumph.
2013, Levon Helm, Stephen Davis, This Wheel's on Fire: Levon Helm and the Story of the Band, Chicago Review Press (→ISBN), page 235:
Then it began to rain like a cow pissing on a flat rock. We were starting to get bummed out because it looked like Watkins Glen was gonna be another Woodstock-style mudbath.
2019, C.F. Etter, The Chefs Who Changed Little Rock Forever: cultural clash and confusion along with resulting recipes (→ISBN), page 13:
His vocabulary began to change and he quickly learned not to say 'Arkyisms' like “It's raining like a cow pissing on a flat rock”. Now when it rained hard he would observe to others, with just the slightest of English intonations, not actually an accent that could be pinned to any geographic place, […] "My, it is just bucketing down, isn't it?"
2009, Thom Jones, Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine: Stories, Back Bay Books (→ISBN):
One evening I re-enacted the fart ride and got Molly laughing so uncontrollably she pissed on the hard tile floor—louder and harder than the proverbial cow pissing on a flat rock.
2012, Donna Gormly, The Tysen Hotel, iUniverse (→ISBN), page 7:
They'd seen him piss. Doobie told everybody that Sample's dick hung damn near to his knees and that when he pissed, it sounded like pouring water out of a boot, or a cow pissing on a flat rock. No matter how many times he said it, […]
2016, William Clodfelter, It's in the Cards, Xlibris Corporation (→ISBN):
[…] was moving around, I have to pee she said, well I said, nobody can see you up here. she pointed to the mule, well hell he'd like it, but wouldn't say a word. So she went to the other side of the truck, it sounded like a cow, pissing on a flat rock.
2018, Alison Bliss, Law of Attraction, Entangled: Amara (→ISBN):
“It sounded like a cow pissing on a flat rock,” she said with a wide grin. “I always said anyone who could pee that loud had to be well-endowed below the waist.” Seth grinned and gave her a little wink. Of course he did. The cocky bastard.
2007, Frank Lampi, Ghost Riders A War Story, Frank Lampi (→ISBN), page 172:
The filter I dread replacing the most is leaking like a sinking submarine. Son-of-a-bitch, I am dog-ass tired and now I've got the fuel filter I detest most leaking fuel like a cow pissing on a flat rock.
2013, Mark Tufo, Zombie Fallout 7: For The Fallen: A Michael Talbot Adventure, DevilDog Press:
The bus was leaving a steady stream of gas along the roadway like a cow pissing on a flat rock. It was only a waiting game now until the bus was […]
2014, Craig Johnson, Spirit of Steamboat, Penguin (→ISBN), page 26:
"She leaks fuel like a cow pissing on a flat rock." Rick took some matches out of his pocket and tried to relight his cigar. "The ole bird is stuck here till somebody can come over and fly her out." I began studying the antique, ...
2014, Barbara Hall, Close to Home: A Novel, Open Road Media (→ISBN):
Rita's car was an old Plymouth Fury that, despite the meticulous attention given to its lubrication system, leaked oil like a cow pissing on a flat rock. Nel and Danny got into the pickup truck and followed the trail of black ooze, all the way down ...
