shower down
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[edit]shower down (third-person singular simple present showers down, present participle showering down, simple past and past participle showered down)
- (idiomatic) To fall from the sky, especially in vast quantities
- 1944 July and August, “Top Link Drivers: XXI—Driver H. Blunt, L.N.E.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 226:
- Driving 2-6-2 locomotive No. 4771 Green Arrow, Blunt suddenly noticed that the tunnel mouth was silhouetted in a dazzling white glare and that incendiary bombs were showering down in their hundreds, he slammed on all his brakes and brought his train to a stop just inside the tunnel.