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id="phrase" class="article"><h1 id="title" class="page-heading">the devil is beating his wife</h1><p class="ct"><a href="https://www.theidioms.com/t/">T</a></p><p><strong>the devil is beating his wife</strong><br>also known as <strong>sunshower</strong> or <strong>sun shower</strong></p><h2 class="wp-block-heading">Meaning</h2><ul class="wp-block-list"><li>raining whereas the sun is shining.</li><li>when the sun is shining yet it’s raining.</li><li>when it’s raining but the sun is shining at the same time.</li></ul><h2 class="wp-block-heading">Example Sentences</h2><ol class="wp-block-list"><li>The sunshower is said to occur when <strong><a href="https://www.theidioms.com/the-devil-is-beating-his-wife/" title="the devil is beating his wife">the devil is beating his wife</a></strong> in various German-speaking countries.</li><li>Today, <strong>the devil is beating his wife</strong> in our city—it’s <a href="https://www.theidioms.com/rain-cats-and-dogs/">raining cats and dogs</a> and the sun is also shining.</li><li>Yesterday, I witnessed a very rare occurrence known as “<strong>the devil is beating his wife</strong>.”</li><li>People in the Southern United States usually <a href="https://www.theidioms.com/come-across/">come across</a> a weird natural phenomenon called “<strong>the devil is beating his wife</strong>.”</li><li>Everybody laughed when a kid asked her mom, “Mamma, I want to see how <strong>the devil is beating his wife</strong>.”</li></ol><h2 class="wp-block-heading">Origin</h2><p>Several cultures now attribute this phenomenon to folkloric tales featuring clever animals or tricksters being related to or getting married to the <a href="https://www.theidioms.com/devil/">devil</a>. For instance, in the Southern <a href="https://www.theidioms.com/american/">United States</a> and Hungary, when they experience a sun shower, they say “the devil is beating his wife with a walking stick,” while the French would say “the devil is beating his wife and marrying his daughter.”</p><p>The illustration of the idiomatic phrase can be explained as that of the devil spitting the <a href="https://www.theidioms.com/fire/">fire</a> of hell (the sun rays) and his wife’s tears (the rain).</p><p>The first recorded use of this phrase was in 1703 in a French play:</p><blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"><p>“to go and thrash him around the churchyard, as <strong>the devil does his wife in rainy weather when the sun shines</strong>.”</p></blockquote><p>Then, years later, the writer Jonathan Swift used it in 1738:</p><blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"><p>“<strong>the devil was beating his wife</strong> behind the door with a shoulder of mutton.”</p></blockquote><p>Another version was recorded in 1893 in <em>Inwards’ Weather Lore</em>:</p><blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"><p>“if it rains while the sun is shining <strong>the devil is beating his grandmother</strong>.”</p></blockquote><div id="comments"><p class="syt"><a class="res" href="#respond">Share your opinions</a><a class="tho" href="#comments">63 Opinions</a></p><div class='info'><div id="comment-1300"><p>My grandmother, from New Brunswick, would say “the Devil is beating his wife for pancakes.” It always made me laugh. It’s awful too!</p><p class="ink"><span class="author">‒ crbrearley</span> <span class="date">January 20, 2024</span></p></div><div id="comment-1299"><p>East Coast here. I remember being a little boy hearing my Grandmother and her siblings saying this when it was a sun shower. They were all originally from Pittsburgh but my Great Grandparents, their parents of course, came from Florida.</p><p class="ink"><span class="author">‒ D. Marshall Cheeks</span> <span class="date">October 8, 2023</span></p></div><div id="comment-1298"><p>Midwest here. always hear this in what we call a sun shower – when the sun is shining and it’s raining. Sometimes I hear it when something unexpected happens. Moved out to the pacific northwest recently when one day there was a sun shower – I casually said to a group of friends “well- looks like the devil’s beatin’ his wife again” – they all busted up with laughter as they’d never heard the idiom before.</p><p class="ink"><span class="author">‒ Summer</span> <span class="date">August 2, 2023</span></p></div><div id="comment-1297"><p>I am a Black American. My parents were born 1909 and 1910. They were born and raised on the Georgia/Florida line. I was raised in East Central Florida and have heard and been told and shared all of my life that anytime it is raining and the sunshines, too, the devil is beating his wife. It’s such a strange situation and statement I have no idea how it came about.</p><p class="ink"><span class="author">‒ Melynda Duh</span> <span class="date">July 19, 2023</span></p></div><div id="comment-1296"><p>Middle Georgia here. My mother’s family always said the devil is beating his wife when it rained while the sun was shining. They were of English and Scots-Irish descent. I’ve never heard it called a sun shower—much more descriptive!</p><p class="ink"><span class="author">‒ Ruth</span> <span class="date">July 16, 2023</span></p></div><div id="comment-1295"><p>In my country, Dominican Republic I always heard people saying: a witch is getting marry, anytime there was a sunshower. Lived in NYC and never heard the expression the devil is beating his wife nor the witch is getting marry.</p><p class="ink"><span class="author">‒ Maggy</span> <span class="date">January 22, 2023</span></p></div><div id="comment-1294"><p>Grew up in East Tennessee & I just turned 41. My grandmother & grandfather ALWAYS referred to it as the devil beating his wife when it rained & was sunny</p><p class="ink"><span class="author">‒ Anonymous</span> <span class="date">September 26, 2022</span></p></div><div id="comment-1293"><p>Los Angeles-born in the 50s, and this expression was a commonplace among mainly Southern migrants. Just looked it up after a sunshower here in these New England Hills, and enjoy the many regional reflections. I’ll always use it, though judiciously, as I know there’s some discomfort with the idea. But human language is raw and unruly, just as our thoughts can be.</p><p class="ink"><span class="author">‒ Mith</span> <span class="date">September 14, 2022</span></p></div><div id="comment-1292"><p>I LOVE old sayings, though this one is a bit harsh! I can’t remember where I hear it first. but grew up in Dallas and have been in Austin since ’95.</p><p class="ink"><span class="author">‒ sally</span> <span class="date">August 11, 2022</span></p></div><div id="comment-1291"><p>I was born and raised in Lexington, Kentucky. This was a well used phrase whenever it was raining and the sun was shining. I was stationed in Tustin, California. Noone except a couple of guys from Kentucky had heard it. Now I live in Western Kentucky and people look at me with confusion when I say it during sun showers. So I explain it to them. Kind of like how everything is a Coke here. Soda in California. Pop in Eastern Ky.</p><p class="ink"><span class="author">‒ Brian Mitchell</span> <span class="date">July 29, 2022</span></p></div><div id="comment-1290"><p>I was born and raised in Lexington, Kentucky. This was a well used phrase whenever it was raining and the sun was shining. I was stationed in Tustin, California. Noone except a couple of guys from Kentucky had heard it. Now I live in Western Kentucky and people look at me with confusion when I say it during sun showers. So I explain it to them. Kind of like how everything is a Coke here. Soda in California. Pop in Eastern Ky.</p><p class="ink"><span class="author">‒ Anonymous</span> <span class="date">July 29, 2022</span></p></div><div id="comment-1289"><p>I’ve been told that in Scandinavia they say “There’s a marriage in hades”</p><p class="ink"><span class="author">‒ Jim</span> <span class="date">June 27, 2022</span></p></div><div id="comment-1288"><p>If we do away with this saying then we must do away with “the rule of thumb” which was an English law that allowed a husband to use a rod no bigger around than his thumb to beat his wife. So, Anonymous (coward) remember folklore is not always nice.</p><p class="ink"><span class="author">‒ Lydia</span> <span class="date">May 2, 2022</span></p></div><div id="comment-1287"><p>I’ve heard this expression many times. I figure it’s a phrase indicating the oxymoron of rain without clouds, just as ridiculous as the Devil having a wife. In short just another way of saying something strange is occurring.</p><p class="ink"><span class="author">‒ mark</span> <span class="date">April 22, 2022</span></p></div><div id="comment-1286"><p>I was born in South Carolina I remember hearing that when it’s raining and the sun is shining the devil was beating his wife. I’ve been living in Nebraska for the last 11 years and I haven’t heard anyone else say it but I have told a lot of people so who knows!</p><p class="ink"><span class="author">‒ Brooke Peterson</span> <span class="date">April 18, 2022</span></p></div><div id="comment-1285"><p>I was raised in New Brunswick, Canada and my parents used thus expression a lot. There are many Pennsylvania Dutch ( Deutsch) as well as Scottish/ Irish in the area. It was always used when there was a sun shower.</p><p class="ink"><span class="author">‒ Paul Jonah</span> <span class="date">April 18, 2022</span></p></div><div id="comment-1284"><p>Family from lower Mississippi and Louisiana. I heard, “<em>Devil is beating his wife for putting salt in the red beans</em>.” 🙂</p><p class="ink"><span class="author">‒ Sharon</span> <span class="date">April 10, 2022</span></p></div><div id="comment-1283"><p>My 89 year old next door neighbor from Oklahoma is who told me about the devil beating his wife saying. She passed away last year. Today the devil beat his wife here where I live and I thought of my sweet neighbor. I sure miss her!</p><p class="ink"><span class="author">‒ Lesa</span> <span class="date">March 26, 2022</span></p></div><div id="comment-1282"><p>I heard the devil is beating his wife. The rain is God crying.</p><p class="ink"><span class="author">‒ Karl Werner</span> <span class="date">March 25, 2022</span></p></div><div id="comment-1281"><p>I heard it all my life when rain came when the sun was shining- the devil is beating his wife. Lived in Virginia. Also heard you can turn back a storm with a double edge axe.</p><p class="ink"><span class="author">‒ Miss Lottie</span> <span class="date">February 13, 2022</span></p></div><div id="comment-1280"><p>To be honest, the version i have always heard is “<em><strong>the devil is taking a piss</strong></em>.”</p><p class="ink"><span class="author">‒ Anonymous</span> <span class="date">December 18, 2021</span></p></div><div id="comment-1279"><p>Grew up in southwestern Virginia near Mt. Rogers where a lot of Scotch-Irish settled. Heard this expression all my life.</p><p class="ink"><span class="author">‒ Anonymous</span> <span class="date">October 6, 2021</span></p></div><div id="comment-1278"><p>Grew up in East Tennessee and my grandmother (94 years old, now) would say “the devil is beating his wife” during a sunshower. I just sat through a sunshower and this expression came to mind. Happy to find more info about it! My family are descended from Scotch-Irish, lots of interesting idioms. My husband’s Michigan family have never heard this.</p><p class="ink"><span class="author">‒ Anonymous</span> <span class="date">October 5, 2021</span></p></div><div id="comment-1277"><p>Grew up in Nebraska and never heard it. Been in Arkansas 40 years and heard it first from a person who grew up in southern part of state (Monticello). Hardly ever hear it anymore. Interesting that the common element in all variants seems to be an unlikely marriage–like rain and sunshine. The idea of a devil’s wife implies marriage. The beating part is still a mystery. Sunshowers today in Little Rock.</p><p class="ink"><span class="author">‒ Stanley G Johnson</span> <span class="date">October 2, 2021</span></p></div><div id="comment-1276"><p>My family is from West Virginia. Somebody (maybe my parents) softened it to “the devil is mad at his wife.”</p><p class="ink"><span class="author">‒ Anonymous</span> <span class="date">September 14, 2021</span></p></div><div id="comment-1275"><p>Marylander here, my parents and grandparents on at least one side said this. I say it to people my age (26) and they have no idea what I’m talking about. Nice to finally find out where it all came from and that others know it as well!</p><p class="ink"><span class="author">‒ J</span> <span class="date">August 20, 2021</span></p></div><div id="comment-1274"><p>My family is from southeast Georgia and growing up, we always said this during a sun shower. The expression is kind of burned into my brain.</p><p class="ink"><span class="author">‒ C</span> <span class="date">July 28, 2021</span></p></div><div id="comment-1273"><p>My grandmother, born 1894, emigrated to US 1914 – would say it but in Polish. I always thought it was a Polish superstition.</p><p class="ink"><span class="author">‒ Dorothy J Kaminski</span> <span class="date">July 24, 2021</span></p></div><div id="comment-1272"><p>40 from NC here and grew up hearing it my whole life.</p><p class="ink"><span class="author">‒ Mel</span> <span class="date">July 3, 2021</span></p></div><div id="comment-1271"><p>Here in Brazil, we have a saying that expresses almost the same thing but it focuses on the rhyme of the words rather than the meaning. It goes like this: “chuva e sol casamento de espanhol, sol e chuva casamento de viuva” that means: rain and sun spanish’s wedding, sun and rain widow’s wedding”.<br>It is totally nonsense in English… but in Portuguese, it remains nonsense but it’s got a rhyme.</p><p class="ink"><span class="author">‒ Carlos Macedo</span> <span class="date">July 2, 2021</span></p></div><div id="comment-1270"><p>Grew up in South Carolina hearing this from school kids, but my parents are from the north, so they never used this phrase. I live in Tennessee now and have for the past 30 years. I haven’t ever heard this said in Tennessee. Just now, at my home, we had a sun shower, and the phrase came back to me. I told my kids about it, and they said, “WHAT?”… so obviously, they have never heard it before either, and all 3 of my kids were born in Tennessee. It’s funny how things become exclusive to certain regions. I’ve personally lived in six states, but South Carolina is the only place I’ve heard this said.</p><p class="ink"><span class="author">‒ Keri H</span> <span class="date">July 1, 2021</span></p></div><div id="comment-1269"><p>My grandmother, a first generation American of German parents, who was born in 1886 in Biloxi, used the expression. It wasn’t used during a thunderstorm, but light rain with sun shining. My mother, born in 1906 explained the expression to me when I was growing up in Tampa, Florida. I’m 75 now (6/26/2021)<br>We were having light rain and sunshine just now and I Googled to see if the expression was still used and hoping to find the origin.</p><p class="ink"><span class="author">‒ Mary</span> <span class="date">June 27, 2021</span></p></div><div id="comment-1268"><p>This is amazing. First, never heard this before. And to hear so many people to explain differences in what it means is remarkable! Looking at it from so many perspectives, I believe that it really deserves much more investigation in an Anthropological sense. Is this from USA? Or is it something that was transported from another country. It is so difficult to discern it’s origins.</p><p class="ink"><span class="author">‒ Mark R.</span> <span class="date">June 17, 2021</span></p></div><div id="comment-1267"><p>I grew up in north western Pennsylvania and never heard this phrase. We always looked for the rainbow that usually comes afterwards. I like the Hawaiian version of liquid sunshine. 🙂</p><p class="ink"><span class="author">‒ Patricia</span> <span class="date">June 16, 2021</span></p></div><div id="comment-1266"><p>Triggered. I don’t believe a 320 y.o. idiom normalizes domestic violence. Jeeze people drop the faux morality</p><p class="ink"><span class="author">‒ Tex</span> <span class="date">June 6, 2021</span></p></div><div id="comment-1265"><p>I grew up in New Orleans where we got this weather situation often. My mom (born in 1944) would say it, so I and all my siblings said it also. My ex-husband acted overly offended the first time he heard me say this. I had thought it was at least a national expression, but from his reaction, I gathered not. He had grown up in S. Dakota</p><p class="ink"><span class="author">‒ Lql</span> <span class="date">May 13, 2021</span></p></div><div id="comment-1264"><p>I grew up in Atlanta, born in 1959. My whole entire family is from Northwest Ga, from the middle 1800’s. I grew up hearing ‘The devil is beating his wife,” when it was the sun was shining but storming like hell at the same time. I also heard ‘The devil is beating his wife, when it was just sunshine with rain. Big difference!</p><p class="ink"><span class="author">‒ Paula Pearson Kaiser</span> <span class="date">May 5, 2021</span></p></div><div id="comment-1263"><p>Heard my Mom saying that “Someone’s mother is crying.” when it rains and sun shines together. From Mumbai, India.</p><p class="ink"><span class="author">‒ Anonymous</span> <span class="date">May 2, 2021</span></p></div><div id="comment-1262"><p>If it is snowing and the sun is out, does that mean God is Jerking it?</p><p class="ink"><span class="author">‒ Anonymous</span> <span class="date">April 1, 2021</span></p></div><div id="comment-1261"><p>My paternal grandma (born 1909 in Missouri) used to say, “The devil is beating his wife” to describe rain while sun was shining. I asked her why, she didn’t know; it was just something ppl said 😉</p><p class="ink"><span class="author">‒ Skitmom</span> <span class="date">March 30, 2021</span></p></div><div id="comment-1260"><p>In Argentina, I’ve heard that if there is a sunshower, a witch is being borne or will be borne.</p><p class="ink"><span class="author">‒ Lu🍀</span> <span class="date">March 27, 2021</span></p></div><div id="comment-1259"><p>My parents were both from Arkansas and they used that phrase all the time!<br>They would be in their 90’s if they were still here.</p><p class="ink"><span class="author">‒ Anonymous</span> <span class="date">February 20, 2021</span></p></div><div id="comment-1258"><p>It’s time to retire this awful expression that normalizes domestic violence.</p><p class="ink"><span class="author">‒ Anonymous</span> <span class="date">February 19, 2021</span></p></div><div id="comment-1257"><p>As a young child from Texas I remember my mother saying this. I am 54 now.</p><p class="ink"><span class="author">‒ Tommy W Box</span> <span class="date">January 11, 2021</span></p></div><div id="comment-1256"><p>No one is going to marry a devil and therefore a devil is not likely to have a wife. Therefore it means it is an unlikely thing to happen</p><p class="ink"><span class="author">‒ Ramesh Joshi</span> <span class="date">January 4, 2021</span></p></div><div id="comment-1255"><p>In Hawaii it’s “liquid sunshine”</p><p class="ink"><span class="author">‒ Stephen</span> <span class="date">January 3, 2021</span></p></div><div id="comment-1254"><p>I’m from Arizona, and I’ve never heard anyone say anything even remotely like this. I’ve always wondered what the hell those things were called though, and sun showers does seem like a pretty good name, so thanks for that! I really don’t understand where the idea to describe something like that as “the devil is beating his wife” came from though.</p><p class="ink"><span class="author">‒ Emploice Muswashands</span> <span class="date">December 20, 2020</span></p></div><div id="comment-1253"><p>Having lived in Alabama most of my life I’ve never heard this expression. We called it a sun shower.<br>It wasn’t until I moved to Oklahoma that I heard people refer to a sun shower as “the devil is beating his wife.”</p><p class="ink"><span class="author">‒ Unknown</span> <span class="date">December 8, 2020</span></p></div><div id="comment-1252"><p>I heard this saying from my father during the 60’s. We are from East Tennessee.</p><p class="ink"><span class="author">‒ Bax Plemons</span> <span class="date">November 6, 2020</span></p></div><div id="comment-1251"><p>North Florida here. I have heard “The devil is beating his wife” all of my 5 decades of life. Even the grandparents used it.<br>“Sun showers” sounds so much nicer 🙂</p><p class="ink"><span class="author">‒ ANON</span> <span class="date">September 6, 2020</span></p></div><div id="comment-1250"><p>I’m from Southern, WV. My grandfather always told me when the sun is out and it’s raining, “The devil was beating his wife!”. He grew up in VA.</p><p class="ink"><span class="author">‒ Chuck Akers</span> <span class="date">September 2, 2020</span></p></div><div id="comment-1249"><p>I’ve heard that if you put a pin on the ground while the devil is beating his wife, you could hear her crying.</p><p class="ink"><span class="author">‒ Betty</span> <span class="date">August 30, 2020</span></p></div><div id="comment-1248"><p>In Bengali the saying for this phenomenon translates to “the fox uncle’s wedding.”</p><p class="ink"><span class="author">‒ Anonymous</span> <span class="date">August 26, 2020</span></p></div><div id="comment-1247"><p>As a child in New Orleans in the 50s we used to say, “The devil is beating his wife for putting too much salt in his soup.”</p><p class="ink"><span class="author">‒ Brod Bagert</span> <span class="date">August 25, 2020</span></p></div><div id="comment-1246"><p>Interesting that similar expressions exist in Arabic: “Satan is bathing (not beating!) his wife”<br>Mauritian Creole: “the devil is getting married under the chili bush”, both used in connection with sunshine+rain.</p><p class="ink"><span class="author">‒ Hunczutpoffa</span> <span class="date">August 18, 2020</span></p></div><div id="comment-1245"><p>Wow! I have never heard this expression. I am an English born South African and in South Africa we say it is a monkey’s wedding when it rains whilst the sun shines?</p><p class="ink"><span class="author">‒ Penelope Weddell</span> <span class="date">July 23, 2020</span></p></div><div id="comment-1244"><p>We actually used to say “the devil is beating his wife and burning his biscuits?!” Where the heck did we get this?</p><p class="ink"><span class="author">‒ Anonymous</span> <span class="date">July 22, 2020</span></p></div><div id="comment-1243"><p>I was born in Virginia near where the Earl Hamner (Walton) family was from. My grandfather always said when it rains when the sun is shining it means the devil is beating his wife.</p><p class="ink"><span class="author">‒ Mike Webber</span> <span class="date">July 15, 2020</span></p></div><div id="comment-1242"><p>I have also heard that if the sun is out when it rains that in Puerto Rico’s version is that it means “The Witch is getting Married.”</p><p class="ink"><span class="author">‒ Luv2laf</span> <span class="date">July 2, 2020</span></p></div><div id="comment-1241"><p>I heard that if you put the pin in a tree you could hear her crying.</p><p class="ink"><span class="author">‒ Luv2laf</span> <span class="date">July 2, 2020</span></p></div><div id="comment-1240"><p>Funny, in Marion, SC, a coworker during a sun shower “the devil is beating his wife”… I said “where the heck did you hear that?” She then said “if it lightenings during a sun shower, ‘the devil is beating his wife behind the kitchen door’”</p><p>Cracked me up!</p><p class="ink"><span class="author">‒ Pati</span> <span class="date">July 1, 2020</span></p></div><div id="comment-1239"><p>I heard that when it is raining while the sun is shining that the devil is beating his wife and that if you stick a pin in the ground, you can hear his wife crying and screaming.</p><p class="ink"><span class="author">‒ Anonymous</span> <span class="date">June 21, 2020</span></p></div><div id="comment-1238"><p>Learned from my grandmother when I would play in the summer rains trying to find the spot where the rained stopped and began.</p><p class="ink"><span class="author">‒ Anonymous</span> <span class="date">June 21, 2020</span></p></div></div><div id="respond" class="comment-respond"><p class="cft">What's on your mind?</p><form action="https://www.theidioms.com/wp-comments-post.php" method="post" id="commentform" class="comment-form"><p><textarea placeholder="Share information, comments, or feedback." id="comment" class="cta cff" name="comment" cols="45" rows="6" 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