We started off with to venture out somewhere, which simply means to go out somewhere. But usually when the conditions are bad. For example – it was pouring with rain but I still decided to venture out to the shops.
Some are very common. For example, I'm sure that most of you have heard the expression " raining cats and dogs" . We use it when it is raining very, very hard. In other words, when it is pouring!
When we're at our summer house in western Maine—a house very much like the one Mike Noonan comes back to in Bag of Bones—I walk four miles every day, unless it's pouring down rain.
" Arthur tried to borrow Ministry cars for us, " Mrs. Weasley whispered to Harry as they stood in the rain-washed yard, watching the taxi drivers heaving six heavy Hogwarts trunks into their cars.
When George sacrifices his honeymoon to help out his fellow citizens who are in financial trouble because of Mr. Potter, they go through a lot of effort in the pouring rain to give George a honeymoon after all.
" I'll see you around, Harry, " she said dramatically, and hiccoughing slightly she dashed to the door, wrenched it open and hurried off into the pouring rain.
My nature worship stops with the twister that came through Kansas or the dreadful rains in Bangladesh that eradicated whole villages and left millions homeless.