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fall in towels
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the rain fell in towels
is that to rain heavily? I could not find it anywhere...
Lidia
is that to rain heavily? I could not find it anywhere...
Lidia
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.the only meaning for towle given in my Oxford Dictionary is another spelling of toll; and none of the meanings of toll makes any sense. So I think QM is probably right: rain falling in sheets means heavy rain; a towel is heavier than a sheet, so it could mean very heavy rain indeed. But I don't know why he should spell it towle.
Poets can be such hard work.
Poets can be such hard work.
Perhaps - as J suggests above - the writer was simply taking the idiom one stage further...ie from sheets to towels, the latter being thicker and even more prone to getting soaked!
In a speech I recently heard, the speaker was talking about how impatient we all are nowadays. He referred to himself as sitting at his computer waiting for Google to come up with a response and shouting, "Come on! I haven't got all minute!"
Normally, of course, we'd say "I haven't got all day!"...but using 'minute' just makes the point about impatience more effectively. Same perhaps with sheet/towel, though I must say myself that - if this was his intention - it's a bit laboured and totally lacking the wit in the day/minute example.
In a speech I recently heard, the speaker was talking about how impatient we all are nowadays. He referred to himself as sitting at his computer waiting for Google to come up with a response and shouting, "Come on! I haven't got all minute!"
Normally, of course, we'd say "I haven't got all day!"...but using 'minute' just makes the point about impatience more effectively. Same perhaps with sheet/towel, though I must say myself that - if this was his intention - it's a bit laboured and totally lacking the wit in the day/minute example.