Green’s Dictionary of Slang

France and Spain n.

rain.

1884		Sporting Times 6 Dec. 1/1: France and Spain all day. Not a drop of Dick the Dandy. Glad to get to wherever I may roam. Found cheese and kisses with her this and the other.
1892		‘Doss Chiderdoss’ ‘The Rhyme of the Rusher’ in Sporting Times 29 Oct. n.p.: I was wearing a leaky I’m afloat, / And it started to France and Spain.
1935		A.J. Pollock Und. Speaks.
1960		J. Franklyn Dict. of Rhy. Sl.
1972		Dodson & Saczek Dict. of Cockney Rhy. Sl.
2002		B. Kirkpatrick Wicked Cockney Rhy. Sl.