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bucket down
UK informal — phrasal verb with bucket /ˈbʌk.ɪt/ verbDefinition
› to rain heavily: It's absolutely bucketing down.Rain
(Definition of bucket down from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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