The correct idiom is "When it rains, it pours". It means a situation when one instance of "bad luck" or a problem and is followed by another problem, and another, and so on. For example:John wakes up late. He forgets to bring his homework. The teacher announces that all homework turned in today will receive 20 extra points, but John doesn't have his homework so he misses out on the extra points plus gets a bad grade because of no homework. After school, he decides to stop for an ice cream cone to cheer himself up. But the top scoop falls off onto the ground. When he jumped backward so the ice cream wouldn't fall on his new shoes, he stepped into a mud puddle behind him. He knew his mom would be mad, so when he gets home he decides to clean up the shoes on his own. He grabs what he thinks is stain remover and pours a little on his shoe--- but then, sees that the bottle contained blue dye. He tries to wipe it off, but can't--but he ended up staining a new bath towel trying to get the dye off his shoes. He throws the towel into the washer, trying to fix what he did. But he didn't realize his sister's white blouses were already in the washer. All her blouses and the towel turn light blue. He adds bleach to try to remove the color--and spills some bleach on his blue jeans, making a white area where the bleach hit. He throws up his hands, and remembers how his grandmother always says, "When it rains, it pours!"
Often, we don't cause the problems, but still have a series of things go wrong. The problems don't even need to be connected to each other.
The statement 'It never rains but it pours' is a saying. The sentence means that things don't happen just a little bit, but in an unforgettable way that leaves an impact. It tends to be used when an individual faces a host of unexpected problems.
"It never rains but what it pours", is probably a more common version of this saying. What this means is that whatever "it" is, didn't come in a small amount. Typically this saying would be in reference to something bad or unwelcome (often bad luck) .
For example, if one day your math teacher assigned a long homework assignment, as did your history and English teachers you might say to a friend, "Three of my teachers assigned a lot of homework today". Your friend might respond with, "Yeah, it never rains but what it pours."
Something that appears to have a simple solution rarely ever does.
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A lot of bad things always seem to happen all at once.
When something happens after a long pause, it happens in large amounts.
Another saying is, "When it rains, it pours." It's origin is the 1911 slogan of the Morton Salt Company. "It never rains but it pours" was an old English proverb that predates the Morton slogan. The article link explains both.
That is the marketing slogan for Morton's Salt. The little girl on the salt shaker my name is jeff
The phrase, "When it rains, it pours" is simply to refer to the fact that if one bad thing happens, lots of bad things happen. When there may be a lot of things going wrong at one time in your life, or day, you may say "when it rains, it pours" to indicate that lots of crazy/not good things are happening. Perhaps you are stressed or feeling down because it is a rough time.
Possibly in writing but not generally and certainly not in speech.To describe the weather we normally use the progressive form of the appropriate verb: It is raining today, or it is snowing. In weather terms, the basic present tense is used for customary actions (It rains twice a week in the Winter) or for gnomic statements (it never rains but it pours). We might say " It rains today" as part of a longer expression, for example saying "Naturally it rains today: we're supposed to have a picnic," but never when what we mean is simply that today's weather is rain.
Street vendors that rely on pleasant outdoor weather for foot traffic (passersby) will "stay open" or "be here all day unless it rains"
Fred MacMurray said it in "The Rains of Ranchipur" in 1955. At the end of 1955 film critic Clyde Gilmour awarded it a prize for the stupidest phrase ever used in a movie.
Rains is a verb, the third person singular conjugation of rain. "It rains every afternoon."Rains can also be a plural noun, the rains, which indicates heavy rainfall or the season of heavy rainfall.
The phrase, "When it rains, it pours" is simply to refer to the fact that if one bad thing happens, lots of bad things happen. When there may be a lot of things going wrong at one time in your life, or day, you may say "when it rains, it pours" to indicate that lots of crazy/not good things are happening. Perhaps you are stressed or feeling down because it is a rough time.
While I've never specifically heard it phrased precisely like that before, it's conceptually similar to the cliche "it never rains but it pours."
The phrase "when it rains, it pours" is a metaphor for how when one bad thing happens, several more seem to follow in quick succession. It highlights the idea that challenges or difficulties often come all at once rather than being spaced out.
when it rains it snows
The phrase, "When it rains, it pours" is simply to refer to the fact that if one bad thing happens, lots of bad things happen. When there may be a lot of things going wrong at one time in your life, or day, you may say "when it rains, it pours" to indicate that lots of crazy/not good things are happening. Perhaps you are stressed or feeling down because it is a rough time.
The cast of When it Rains it Pours - 2005 includes: Nick Stevenson as Warren
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When it rains it pours!
Big Break Dominican Republic - 2010 When It Rains It Pours was released on: USA: 2010
"And just like that, we're all in fright"?
Farm Kings - 2012 When It Rains It Pours 1-5 was released on: USA: 25 October 2012