What does it mean?
It is raining extremely hard.
Closest English saying: It’s raining cats and dogs.
What does it literally say?
Βρέχει καρεκλοπόδαρα
Vréhi kareklopódara
“It’s raining chair legs.”
Chair legs are an exaggerated image for the heavy, pounding raindrops.
How is it used?
«Πήραμε ομπρέλα και πάλι μουσκέψαμε. Βρέχει καρεκλοπόδαρα.»
“We took umbrellas and still got soaked. It’s raining chair legs.”
Where does it come from?
Established colloquial modern Greek. The first historical record of the expression has not been confirmed on eipane.
This is an English edition of the Greek entry, which remains the reference version. The English text was written from the Greek entry with the help of AI tools and checked against it. Suggest a correction ↗