"small rain" is a correct phrase and can be used in written English.
It typically refers to light rain, and is often used to create a mood in writing. For example, "The small rain pattered against the windowpane, creating a gentle lullaby."
Easter again, and a small rain falls.
We get not the "the small rain down shall rain" of the medieval lyric, but cloudbursts.
Untitled, Anon, before 1530 Western wind, when wilt thou blow, The small rain down can rain.
O western wind when wilt thoublow That the small rain down can rain?
There is simple erotic weather, where the wind and the "small rain" are the natural forces that go with love.
She went to Smith College where she wrote her first novel, "The Small Rain," published when she was 24, based on her life in boarding schools.
Farmers, most subsisting on small, rain-fed plots, are disproportionately poor, and inflation has soared past 11percentthethighestest in 13 years.
Here is Garnett The whole day had been hot; a storm was gathering, but only a small rain-cloud had sprinkled the dust of the road and the sappy leaves.
Indeed, the anonymous blurb writer deserves a credit for the purple prose that follows: "We also celebrating ourselves — the small, rain-lashed country that is behind those three lions on that white shirt.
It was a lovely, mysterious, and, as it turns out, essential object, having been used by the Canela Indians, a small rain-forest tribe isolated for centuries in the basin, for squeezing the cyanide out of shredded manioc before pounding it into flour.
Meanwhile, drought intensified yearly from 1980, building to a climax in 1984, when the small rains were scanty and the main rains failed altogether.
