pour down


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Verb1.pour down - drink down entirelypour down - drink down entirely; "He downed three martinis before dinner"; "She killed a bottle of brandy that night"; "They popped a few beer after work"
belt down, bolt down, down, drink down, toss off, pop, kill
drink, imbibe - take in liquids; "The patient must drink several liters each day"; "The children like to drink soda"
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pleuvoir comme vache qui pisse
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Pinocchio had no hat, but he managed to get under the window just in time to feel a shower of ice-cold water pour down on his poor wooden head, his shoulders, and over his whole body.
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Our expedition, however, was not so great but we saw them on the top of a mountain ready to pour down upon us.
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"The Poet wandering on, through Arabie And Persia, and the wild Carmanian waste, And o'er the aerial mountains which pour down Indus and Oxus from their icy caves--" and that other passage beginning
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the rain's going to pour down harder than ever; and this time it will be the deluge itself, if we're to judge by yon cloud that's coming up!"
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Their livelihood depends on rainfall, they grow bajar, juwar and such other crops when it pour down heavily.
Rollback of 18th Amendment to be resisted strongly: Shah
"Hundreds of Scots pour down the M6 to have a holiday or stag do.
Winter's too hot for Rob

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