Meaning of WHEN IT RAINS IT POURS - A Really Short English Lesson with Subtitles #shorts

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So in English we have a phrase, "When it rains it pours!", and rain is obviously what it's
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doing out here right now, there is water falling from the sky.
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And when it rains really hard we say that it is pouring.
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But this phrase is something that we use to describe life, especially when things are
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going badly or things are going wrong, and when many wrong things or bad things happen
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in a row.
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So maybe you have day where you get up in the morning and you're feeling sick, and then
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later that day you run out of gas with your car, and then when you put gas in your car,
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a few kilometres later your car breaks down.
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We would describe that day by saying, "When it rains it pours!", because what we're saying
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is that a whole bunch of bad things happened in a row.
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