llover sobre mojado

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Verb

llover sobre mojado (impersonal, third-person singular present llueve sobre mojado, third-person singular preterite llovió sobre mojado, past participle llovido sobre mojado)

  1. (idiomatic, impersonal) to be one thing after another
    • 2021 March 6, Cristian Segura, María Sosa Troya, “La natalidad se desploma en España por el confinamiento”, in El País:
      Nadie se atreve a pronosticarlo, pero sí a aventurar que no será una crisis de unos meses. El problema es que llueve sobre mojado.
      Nobody dares to make a prediction, but will venture to guess that it will be a crisis that won't just last a few months. The problem is that when it rains, it pours.

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