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- It's raining hard/ heavily (= a large amount of rain is falling).
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"hard rain" is a correct and usable phrase in written English. You can use it to describe an intense rain shower, for example: "The sky grew dark as the hard rain started to pour.".
Sep 4, 2015 · In September 22, 1962, Dylan performed “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall” for the first time. It is a song which as many have observed comes from the style of the traditional Anglo-Scottish border ballad “Lord Randal” which uses the question and answer pattern, “O where ha you been, Lord Randall my son?/
verb [ I ] uk / reɪn / us / reɪn / A1. If it rains, water falls from the sky in small drops: I think it's starting to rain. It's raining hard/ heavily (= a large amount of rain is falling). More examples. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Idioms. it never rains but it pours. it's raining cats and dogs!
Jun 29, 2013 · They are functionally interchangeable, although to me "hard rain" implies rain that is coming down with some force, perhaps driven by the wind, while "heavy rain" relates more to the volume of water that is falling.
Apr 14, 2020 · In AE we use the term "hard water" to mean water with lots of minerals dissolved in it. So a person hearing "a hard rain" might think it meant "raindrops that are hard water". That may be why we don't say it. We say "a heavy rain" or "a heavy rainstorm".
Jun 11, 2018 · There was rain falling last night, and the rain was "hard". In sentence 1, "a rain" is one specific rainfall: a countable noun. Perhaps it lasted for one hour. You can say "rain" or "rainfall" or "rainstorm" or "shower" for the countable noun, as the WR dictionary shows.
