lash down

lash down (third-person singular simple present lashes down, present participle lashing down, simple past and past participle lashed down)

1. (transitive) To secure with ropes; to tie down
2. (intransitive) To rain heavily.
   • 1995, Ash, Goldfinger:

     I'm feeling so alive, feeling so real
     On a stormy night, the rain is coming down
     Rain like never before
     I've got some records on, some bottles of wine
     On a stormy night, the rain is lashing down
     And I'm waiting for her.

(secure with ropes):

• tie down

(to rain very heavily):

• bucket down
• chuck it down
• pelt
• pelt down
• piss down
• pour
• pour down
• rain cats and dogs
• stream
• teem
• whip down

• Howlands