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rain cats and dogs

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English

Alternative forms

rain dogs and cats(rare)

Etymology

Unknown, but see examples of early use inCitations.

Pronunciation

Audio(General Australian): (file)

Verb

rain cats and dogs (third-person singular simple presentrains cats and dogs,present participleraining cats and dogs,simple past and past participlerained cats and dogs)

(idiomatic, impersonal) Torain veryheavily.
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
- 1929,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 dogs to-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.

Derived terms

cats and dogs

Translations

to rain very heavily

Arabic:أَمْطَرَ بِغَزَارَة(ʔamṭara bi-ḡazāra)
Azerbaijani:tut ucundan, göyə çıx
Breton:Gwelet a ran da gazh er jardin
Bulgarian:вали́ като из ведро́(valí kato iz vedró)
Catalan:ploure a bots i barrals (ca)
Chinese:
Cantonese:落狗屎 (yue)(lok⁶ gau² si²)
Hokkien:㴙㴙落 (zh-min-nan)(tsa̍p-tsa̍p-lo̍h)
Mandarin:暴雨如注 (zh),傾盆大雨 /倾盆大雨 (zh)(qīngpéndàyǔ)
Czech:lít jako z konve (cs),padat trakaře
Dutch:pijpenstelen regenen (nl)
Esperanto:pluvegi
Finnish:sataa kaatamalla,sataa äkäisiä ämmiä äkeet selässä,sataa kuin saavista kaataen
French:pleuvoir des cordes (fr),pleuvoir à verse (fr),pleuvoir des hallebardes (fr),(Québec)pleuvoir à boire debout (fr),(Belgium)dracher (fr),pleuvoir à seaux (fr)
Galician:arroiar,diluviar,chover a chuzos,chover a cachón (gl),chover a Deus dar auga,chover a caldeiros (gl)
Georgian:კოკისპირული წვიმა(ḳoḳisṗiruli c̣vima)
German:Bindfäden regnen (de)
Greek:βρέχει με το τουλούμι(vréchei me to touloúmi),ρίχνει καρεκλοπόδαρα(ríchnei kareklopódara),ρίχνει καντάρια(ríchnei kantária)
Hungarian:zuhog, mintha dézsából öntenék (hu)
Icelandic:rigna eldi og brennisteini
Interlingua:pluver torrentialmente
Irish:sceana gréasaí a chur
Italian:piovere a catinelle,diluviare (it),scrosciare (it),piovere come Dio la manda
Japanese:土砂降りになる(どしゃぶりになる, doshaburi ni naru)
Korean:비가 억수같이 쏟아진다(bi-ga eoksu-gachi ssodajinda)
Norwegian:
Bokmål:høljeregne (no),høljregne (no),regne sinte kjerringer(literally“rain mad hags”)
Nynorsk:høljeregne,ausregne
Polish:lać jak z cebra (pl)
Portuguese:o céu vir abaixo,chover a cântaros (pt)(Portugal),chover a potes(Portugal),cair um toró(Brazil),chover canivetes(Brazil),chover canivete(literally“to rain pocketknives”)(Brazil)
Romanian:ploua cu găleata
Russian:лить как из ведра́(litʹ kak iz vedrá)
Slovak:liať ako z krhly
Spanish:llover a cántaros (es),llover a mares (es),caer chuzos de punta (es),chaparrear (es),jarrear (es),llover reciamente,llover copiosamente,diluviar (es),caer un palo de lluvia,caer un palo de pluvia (es)(poetic)
Swedish:stå som spön i backen (sv)
Turkish:bardaktan boşalırcasına yağmak,şakır şakır yağmur
Ukrainian:ллє як з відра(llje jak z vidra)
Vietnamese:(trời)mưa xối xả,(trời)mưa như trút
Welsh:bwrw hen wragedd â ffyn (cy)

See also

come down in stair rods

Anagrams

rain dogs and cats

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