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it’s pouring (esp. spoken) - use this to say that it is raining very hard:
- As soon as I got outside it started pouring.
- It’s pouring.
- It’s coming on to pour.
it’s pouring with rain
- It was pouring with rain, and she had forgotten her umbrella.
it’s drizzling (esp. spoken) - use this to say that it is raining a little, with very
small drops of rain:
- I think I’ll walk to work, it’s only drizzling.
- It drizzled a little and then ceased. Will it clear up do you think?
a drizzling rain = a drizzle
wet / rainy (adj.) - if the weather is wet or rainy, it rains a lot; if smth. is wet, it
has a lot of liquid on it or in it; if someone is wet, their clothes and hair are wet.
- wet weather
- a rainy weekend in November
- It has been wet all week.
- You had better change out of those wet clothes.
- The grass was wet after the rain.
to get wet = to get caught in the rain
- Hurry up with the umbrella, I’m getting wet!
to be soaking wet / wet through = very wet
- A pipe has burst and the carpet was soaking wet.
- By the time the bus arrived, we were wet through.
- When it began raining I got caught in the rain and was soaking through.
to be all wet = very wet (wet - wetter - wettest)
- Oh no! My socks are all wet now!
to be (get) drenched / soaked (adj.) - if you are drenched or soaked you are ex-
tremely wet, so that drops of water are falling from your clothes:
- By the time we got home we were all drenched.
- I’m soaked through! I’ll have to go and change.
to be (get) soaked to the skin = completely soaked
- I was exhausted, and soaked to the skin.
- I’m wet to the bone!
- I’m simply soaked through!
- I’m wet like a drowned cat!
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