UsageA vivid fixed weather expression meaning "to rain extremely hard" — literally "for icicles/spikes to fall point-first." Used the way English speakers say "it's raining cats and dogs" or "coming down in buckets." Colloquial, mainly heard in Spain.
Examples- No salgas, están cayendo chuzos de punta. — Don't go out, it's pouring buckets.
- Ayer cayeron chuzos de punta toda la tarde. — Yesterday it rained cats and dogs all afternoon.
- Si caen chuzos de punta, cancelamos el partido. — If it comes down that hard, we'll cancel the match.
Common mistakeThis phrase is always used impersonally with caer, describing the weather itself — a learner shouldn't try to conjugate it for other subjects, the same way llover a cántaros can also only describe weather, not a person.
Often confused with llover.