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#2: Nov 20th 2010 at 8:34:04 AM
No, they're two different things:
Thunder Equals Downpour about the relationship of thunder to rain. There is no delay between thunder and a downpour; all thunder is immediately followed by a downpour.
When It Rains, It Pours is about the type of rain. All rain is a downpour; there's never a light drizzle or one of those slow soakers or a spatter of rain. If it's raining, it's coming down in buckets. You can have this without thunder, though.
The examples need to be cleaned up.
edited 20th Nov '10 8:35:30 AM by Madrugada
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#3: Jul 14th 2011 at 10:41:54 AM
Necrobump. Have the examples been cleaned up? If so, we can lock this.
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#4: Jul 14th 2011 at 10:54:32 AM
They have been now. Locking.
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I understand the way Thunder Equals Downpour is trying to distinguish itself from When It Rains, It Pours, but the examples don't seem to bear it out. In my opinion, a merge for these two would be as appropriate as for the two tropes now folded into Lava Is Boiling Kool-Aid (lava as hot water and lava as red liquid).