Meaning of send her down Hughie | Babel Free

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An appeal for continued rain, invoked when it comes after a long drought.

Australia

Examples

“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.”

“The wind was bucking round to the west and heavy rain had started again. “Send her down, Hughie!” he said under his breath, thinking with satisfaction of the soil being gouged out of Sunderland′s paddock and carried off into the rising river.”

“‘Ah, that′s it, send her down, Hughie!’ he yelled at the sky. ‘Hughie?’ ‘The rain, my darlin'. Hughie sends down the rain.’ ‘You mean God?’ she asked, shocked. Aunt Ann was firm about not taking the Lord′s name in vain. ‘Nah. Hughie′s just ... Hughie.[…]’”

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