rain cats and dogs

Language: en

Meaning: (idiomatic,impersonal)Torainveryheavily.Synonyms:bucket,bucket down,chuck it down,come down cats and dogs,rain buckets,rain pitchforks,pelt,(vulgar)piss down,(vulgar)piss it down,pour,pour cats and dogs,storm cats and dogs,stream,teem,tip it down1929,L[ucy] M[aud] Montgomery, “Marigold Entertains”, inMagic for Marigold, Toronto, Ont.:McClelland and Stewart,→OCLC, section 4,page190:["]Those weather-gaws aren't out for nothing. It'llrain cats and dogsto-morrow." Marigold wondered what weather-gaws were—and then forgot in thinking how interesting it would be in it really rained cats and dogs. Little silk-eared kittens everywhere by the basketful—loads of darling pudgy puppies.

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