Tom kovayı soğuk su ile doldurdu.
- Tom filled the bucket with cold water.
Ne kadar acele edersen et, çaban sadece kovada bir damla.
- No matter how much you hurry your effort is just a drop in the bucket.
It's really chucking it down, I'm glad I brought my umbrella.
I'm not going to the shops now. It's pissing down.
A torrential rain poured down from the floodgates of the angry heavens upon the bared heads of the assembled multitude which numbered at the lowest computation five hundred thousand persons.
What there is no question of is, said Linette, that my poor frock will be spoiled. It is going to rain pitchforks. There will be water enough to drown you before we reach the house, and your mites of shoes will be lost; but come along. — Eliza Lee Follen, Piccolissima, 1857.