It's Shattering Down?

There are loads and loads of different phrases that people use around the world for describing heavy rain. I did a whole episode of the podcast about it, my listeners can find that one in the archive. Well, we do as well sometimes, we'll say, oh, it's cats and dogs here? No, we would miss out raining. You know, it uses a shortened form. But yeah, I guess people do say it's pissing it down. Which is odd. Or it's raining buckets or it's bucketing. As my mother used to say, and I don't know whether it was just her, her made-up thing, but she used to say it's