piss it down
B1 slang intransitive
In simple words
It is raining very, very hard.
Literal meaning: To urinate 'it' downward — a more emphatic version of the rain-as-urination metaphor.
Meanings
1 B1
idiomatic
slang
To rain very heavily (emphatic form with dummy 'it').
"I left my umbrella at home and now it's pissing it down — typical!"
Usage notes
Exclusively British English. The 'it' is a dummy pronoun (like in 'it is raining') and carries no referential meaning. Used for emphasis. Always in continuous form: 'it's pissing it down'. Vulgar — informal contexts only.
Commonly used with
rain outside weather umbrella forecast
Forms
Base
piss it down
I/you/we/they
3rd person
pisses it down
he/she/it
Past simple
pissed it down
yesterday
Past participle
pissed it down
have + pp
-ing form
pissing it down
continuous
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