it's pissing down

Grammar usage guide and real-world examples

It's pissing down outside and your kid's toying with some LEGO, or scribbling over an important final demand with permanent marker, or realizing a magnificent crayon landscape on your recently painted hallway wall. .

It's pissing down outside and your kid's toying with some LEGO, or scribbling over an important final demand with permanent marker, or realising a magnificent crayon landscape on your recently painted hallway wall.

It's pissing down with rain.

It's pissing down in a satellite town on the outskirts of Manchester.

On the Monday, it's pissing down, the camera surveys the wrecked site: fires smolder, litter is piled sky-high.

It doesn't matter how hip your area is though, drizzle is a great leveller: it's pissing down with grim persistence.

The first gig it was pissing down in Germany.

At one point, he told his audience it was "pissing down with stars".

"It was pissing down with rain, and at first he flashed past me," she recalls.

It was pissing down with rain and they had brollies over me, a defibrillator on me, a needle sticking out of my chest and I was petrified, crying my eyes out".

The comic and actor, who is the regular host of the film awards, made a series of risqué remarks including telling the audience it was "pissing down with stars" inside the ceremony.