Weather sayings
What does “it never rains but it pours” mean?
Bad things tend to come all at once. In the US, “when it rains, it pours” is more common.
“The car broke down, then the boiler. It never rains but it pours.”
Get roasted by your own forecastFree, no account, and you pick how rude I get.
Where it comes from
In print in Britain in the 1700s. In the US, Morton Salt’s 1914 slogan “When it rains it pours” made the other version famous, about salt that still pours in damp weather.
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What I think of “it never rains but it pours”
It never rains but it pours: the weather’s version of a group chat.
When it rains, it pours, and then it drizzles for a week just to make a point.
Never rains but it pours. Sometimes it just pours. That is my job, unfortunately.
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Sources: Morton Salt company history on the 1914 slogan; 18th-century British use.