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I should have guessed it was a Yankee thing...
Wednesday, June 02, 2021, 07:12

From the University of Ohio studies in humanities and folk language...

"According to the Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE), many older speakers especially may describe a torrential rainfall as raining pitchforks and nigger babies in the Eastern and Central Midwest (elsewhere in the country, such downpours are variously described as raining pitchforks and bullfrogs, pitchforks and darning needles, pitchforks and sawlogs, pitchforks and grindstones, and pitchforks and barn shovels)."