Need help translating a line from a film, may be latin?

Question

In the movie RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD, there is a scene where Ernie the guy who runs the mortuary is looking out the window at the pouring rain. He says outloud a phrase that for years I never understood. I think it may be latin?? I will spell it phonetically but I don't know exactly how to spell it...

"It's coming down like a DWEEDIN SOY DOT"
That is what it sounds like and spelled phonetically. If anyone can translate that please do so, like I say I think it sounds latin to me. Thanks!

Answer 1

It's german. This was fun to research and find out, thanks for the question!

Is Ernie is a Nazi?
An interesting idea is that Ernie is some Nazi war criminal in hiding. Perhaps the evidence for this is a little thin but look closely and there are certainly indications he has a background in the German military:

* There are odd paintings hanging in Ernie's mortuary; one appears to be two German Officers standing at a card table, the other is of Eva Braun.
* He has a great big leather coat and carries a gun which is a Luger.
* On his walkman he is listening to German "Marschmusik" - this is military style marching music sung, for instance, by the Hitler youth as they paraded around town.

* At one point he remarks in German that the rain is coming down like "einen gutrunken soldat". What he means is "a drunken soldier" although it is incorrectly translated. "Getrunken" does mean "drunk" though only as in the past tense of "drink"; not inebriated.