send her down Hughie
intjEtymology
Hughie (“diminutive of Hugh, a male given name”) is a god of rain, addressed as an ordinary person.
Definitions
An appeal for continued rain, invoked when it comes after a long drought.
- All night it poured down but Dinny grinned and applauded. ‘Send her down, Hughie!’ he cried, as the diggers used to on Coolgardie and Hannans.
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