when it rains, it pours

when it rains, it pours

proverb When something good or bad happens, similarly good or bad things tend to follow. After months of looking for a job, I suddenly have three job interviews this week. When it rains, it pours. Everyone in my house is sick right now because when it rains, it pours.
See also: pour
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • it never rains but it pours
  • separate the sheep from the goats
  • separate the sheep from the goats, to
  • sort out/separate the sheep from the goats
  • a curate's egg
  • curate
  • curate's egg
  • have a bad opinion of (someone or something)
  • have a good, bad, high, low, etc. opinion of somebody/something
  • curses, like chickens, come home to roost
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He added: "When it rains, it pours. He was going to be important for us.
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For scrap processors, sometimes when it rains, it pours. Processors who have enough equipment on hand to bale their flow of scrap one month may find them selves short-handed the next month when one or two major projects come their way.
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