it's raining cats and dogs - What is the Portuguese translation? Portuguese translators help technical Portuguese translators with the translation of it's raining cats and dogs

Conges terminology question

238 months ago

manuela (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:	English > Portuguese
Subject:	Technical / Engineering
Level of diffculty:	Easy / medium
Word or term in question:	it's raining cats and dogs
Context:	it's a bad day
Keywords:	-

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238 months ago

. wrote:

Está a chover a potes.

My comment:

Alternatively, you may use the expression "Estão a chover canivetes". Basically the same thing, but the first one is more widely used.

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238 months ago

Lina wrote:

We have both expressions, "Está chovendo canivete" meaning that is raining cats and dogs (raining a lot) and "Mesmo que chova canivete" meaning that even if it is "chovendo canivete" (raining cats and dogs) I´ll be there

My comment:

We have both expressions,

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238 months ago

gbarbalho wrote:

dia de cão

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238 months ago

gbarbalho wrote:

Está a chover a potes.

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238 months ago

Scanhoto wrote:

chove a cântaros, está a chover a cântaros

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238 months ago

Scanhoto wrote:

" chove a cântaros"

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238 months ago

Scanhoto wrote:

" chove a cântaros "

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238 months ago

Lina wrote:

Está chovendo canivete

My comment:

In Brazil it means it´s pouring, the kind of day you'd better stay indoors.

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Comments by other colleagues on this answer:

238 months ago

wrote:

I agree; it means a rainy day, which can mean a bad day (to those who don´t like rain...)

238 months ago

wrote:

Disagree: "mesmo que chova canivete" means in Brazil "de qualquer jeito; haja o que houver" (Dicionario Houaiss) i.e. in English it is something like "at any rate/cost"

238 months ago

gbarbalho wrote:

I agree with Jaroslaw and the idiom is "nem que chova canivete" that means: "haja o que houver" ou "eu farei/irei de qualquer jeito".

238 months ago

japiedade wrote:

Chove torrencialmente; o céu abiu a torneira; chovem cântaros; chuva diluviana

My comment:

expressão coloquial

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238 months ago

Emilia Carneiro wrote:

está chovendo pra cachorro