rain cats and dogs
English
Alternative forms
- rain dogs and cats (rare)
Etymology
Unknown, but see examples of early use in Citations.
Pronunciation
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Verb
rain cats and dogs (third-person singular simple present rains cats and dogs, present participle raining cats and dogs, simple past and past participle rained cats and dogs)
- (impersonal, idiomatic) To rain very heavily.
- 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 down
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:rain cats and dogs.
Derived terms
Translations
to rain very heavily
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