Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of rain cats and dogs.
Examples
“It has been raining cats and dogs these two days, so that we have been unable to return to our headquarters at the Montanvert which we left on Wednesday for the purpose of going up Mont Blanc.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘raining cats and dogs’.
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Rain
rain, Purple Rain, drain, rainbow, grain, rain shadow, rainforest, raindrops keep fa..., rain, rain, go away, Rainn Wilson, Black Rain, rainbow trout and 55 more...
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phraseologue ⊃ weather
blow the doors off, calm before the s..., eye of the hurricane, it's an ill wind ..., which way the win..., right as rain, storm is brewing, weather the storm, up a storm, quick as lightning, April showers bri..., scattered to the ... and 51 more...
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Special Beasts
I'm looking for compounds or phrases where the character of an animal is essential to the meaning, yet the term is usable in general conversation.
scapegoat, bull market, sacred cow, bear market, hangdog, cat o' nine tails, clothes horse, mousey, donkey drop, black sheep, horseplay, ducks and drakes and 94 more...
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Noah's Park
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sheep's eyes, doe-eyed, cat-eyed, bug-eyed, cat's paw, black swan, leapfrog, menagerie, cold turkey, card shark, snail's pace, bull's eye and 362 more...
Tweets
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cohenizzy The meaning is: a torrent of rain is descending. This expression was first attested as "polecat and dog" where "polecat an_" is cognate with Hebrew maBooL GeSHeM (a torrent of rain) with an ancient T-sound for the shin. Dog, OE docga, is the verb ... cognate with shin-kuf-aiyin (to descend), with a D/T-sound for the shin and an ancient G-sound, as in 3aZa = Gaza, for the aiyin.
Israel "izzy" Cohen Jun 14, 2009