[Vocabulary] came pouring in

[Silverobama]

Hi,


How to understand "came pouring in" in this sentence?


Messages of congratulation came pouring in.


Thanks a lot

 

[5jj]

Think of rain pouring down.

 

[Tdol]

Lots arriving

 

[Silverobama]

Thanks a lot, can you tell me the grammar point here?

 

[birdeen's call]

I don't know what a grammar point is, but maybe this will be helpful:

"They came."
"They came in what way?"
"They came pouring in."

"Pouring in" works like an adverb in this sentence.

 

[BobK]

Think of rain pouring down.

:up: And other words/expressions about too much paperwork arriving use the same idea: "up to my eyes in...", 'inundated with..."... Can't think of any more*, but I'm sure someone can. There are also closely related images that don't mean quite the same thing: "snowed under" [=having a lot of work to do], 'out of one's depth" [=having reached the limit of one's understanding - e.g. 'I read chapter one, but after that I quickly got out of my depth']

b

PS *Oh of course: 'Requests have been flooding in'. And extending that backwards: 'At first there was only a trickle of requests. But after a few weeks the trickle had turned into a flood.'