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  What it means

  Literally “to pour like from a bucket.” Describes very heavy rain — the equivalent of “it’s raining cats and dogs” or “it’s bucketing down.”

  Vocabulary

  • lać — to pour
  • ceber — bucket / large tub (archaic)

  Grammar note

  'Z cebra' uses the genitive after 'z' (from). 'Ceber' is an archaic word for a large wooden bucket, rarely used outside this expression.

  Cultural context

  'Ceber' is so old-fashioned that most Poles only know it from this idiom — which gives the phrase a colorfully dusty feel.

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