a (real) frog-strangler

A particularly heavy or torrential downpour of rain. (Chiefly heard in the southern United States.) It's a real frog-strangler out there today—looks like we'll have to have our barbecue another day. There's no way I'm biking to work in a frog-strangler like this!

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Filippu	-	Old Church Slavic
Troels	-	Danish
Doru	-	Romanian
Melanthios	-	Greek Mythology, Ancient Greek
Ahuva	-	Hebrew
Mao (1)	mah-o	Japanese