Finnish Translation
Kun irrotin lavuaarin tulpan, vesi virtasi syöksähtäen alas viemäriin.
“Gush” is only used for a liquid flowing OUT of something—not into something. So, water can gush out of a faucet, but it cannot “gush down a drain”.
The internet would disagree: e.g. “When the drain cleared, water gushed down the drain, which gave you an appreciation of just how much water had been getting onto the home straight,” said Watters. Racing: Avondale gains from BoP pain - NZ Herald
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You’re being a touch over-literal there. Yes, a “gush” does flow out of one thing and into something else BUT there is no rule saying that one must ONLY refer to the source and not to the destination of a “gushing” event. The “gush” is about the flow itself. Not the source, not the destination, just the flow.
I would prefer to refer to the Oxford Dictionary on this but these days most of that is locked behind a paywall so I’ll refer to it’s little cousin, the Oxford Learner’s Dictionary:
Gush, Verb [intransitive] gush out of/from/into something | gush out/in to flow or pour suddenly and quickly out of a hole in large amounts
(My emphasis added.)
For a flow of liquid to gush into something it automatically implies that it is gushing out of something else; they’re the two sides of the single event, as the example by @Crick_G above refers to as well. In this case the water was gushing OUT of the sink and INTO the drain. (Although the sentence does not actually say that the water gushed into the drain; the phrase referring to the drain is merely descriptive of where the water ended up.)
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