Meaning of “It Never Rains But it Pours” Origin of Phrase with examples.

It Never Rains But it Pours

Meaning

When troubles come, they come together.

Origin

A proverbial phrase. The origin is unknown but the phrase itself was known by the early 18th century. For example, this item from a work by John Arbuthnot, 1726: “It cannot rain but it pours; or London strow’d with rarities.”

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