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"It's pissing pissing"
Harrumph! (copyright from Auntie required)
Doesn't seem that long ago when saying "it's pissing down" was an intensifier, on a par with "it's absolutely chucking it down". It also expressed being pissed-off with the fact that it was raining. Somehow or other the word's been watered downand now pissing just means raining, that's the problem here. Well, it's a problem to the extent that, like me, you prefer the Absolute Gravity of your expletives kept good n' high.
Actually this is a regional thing, 'cos if you looked out of the window and said "it's pissing" in Britland (even omitting the "down") I reckon most people would assume you meant it was raining heavily.
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