汗如雨下
hàn rú yǔ xià
sweat pours down like rain; to sweat buckets
Character by character
汗hàn
sweat
sweat
如rú
like
like
雨yǔ
rain
rain
下xià
fall
fall
Example
中午的太阳像火一样，工人们在工地上干活，个个汗如雨下。
The midday sun was blazing, and the workers on the building site were all sweating buckets.
Tone: neutral.
Usage and origin
From heat, hard work or fear: a nervous speaker can be 汗如雨下 too. Close to 大汗淋漓 (lesson 1-20), which paints the whole body dripping; 汗如雨下 stresses the sweat streaming down.
Learn this in Lesson 133 · HSK 7–9: 北方的澡堂子 (The northern bathhouse)
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