llover sobre mojado
Spanish
[edit]Verb
[edit]llover sobre mojado (impersonal, third-person singular present llueve sobre mojado, third-person singular preterite llovió sobre mojado, past participle llovido sobre mojado)
- (idiomatic, impersonal) to be one thing after another
- 2021 March 6, Cristian Segura, María Sosa Troya, “La natalidad se desploma en España por el confinamiento”, in El País[1]:
- Nadie se atreve a pronosticarlo, pero sí a aventurar que no será una crisis de unos meses. El problema es que llueve sobre mojado.
- Nobody dares to make a prediction, but will venture to guess that it will be a crisis that won't just last a few months. The problem is that when it rains, it pours.
Further reading
[edit]- “llover sobre mojado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10