"IT never rains but it pours .'This is an old English saying which people sometimes find hard to interpret, since " but " is being used in a rather unusual way for standard English.
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Yes, it's perfectly true; it never rains but it pours, and in my case, it never rained and even then it poured, at least for a few minutes until I was able to get things under control.
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But it is also an allusion to the saying " It never rains but it pours, " meaning that not one but several disasters will arrive at the same time .-- Shantavira 07 : 10, 7 September 2006 ( UTC)