A British idiom meaning to rain heavily — 'it's chucking it down.' Also an older dated slang phrase meaning to run away or scram.
A British idiom meaning to rain heavily — 'it's chucking it down.' Also an older dated slang phrase meaning to run away or scram. The rain sense is the better-known contemporary usage in British English: 'chuck it down' describes a downpour.
It started to chuck it down just as they reached the car park.
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(slang) To quit (something, especially a job).
Chuck it in is informal British and Australian slang meaning to quit something — most often a job, project, or relationship that has become more trouble than it is worth. The phrase has a decisive, no-nonsense energy: you are not gracefully stepping down, you are tossing the whole thing aside. It often appears at moments of peak frustration, when someone has finally hit their limit and decided that walking away beats grinding on.
(slang) To quit a job.
(idiom) To rain heavily.
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(slang, dated) To run away; scram.
“*whispers* (chuck it out. no one will ever know)”
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