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to rain very heavily: Don't forget to take your umbrella - it's raining cats and dogs out there. (Definition of rain cats and dogs from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
The English-language idiom "raining cats and dogs" or "raining dogs and cats" is used to describe particularly heavy rain. It is of unknown etymology and is not necessarily related to the raining animals phenomenon. The phrase (with "polecats" instead of "cats") has been used at least since the 17th century.
LanguageExpressionEnglish TranslationWaaqatu baqaqethe sky got torndit reën ou meide /vrouens/anties met ...it's raining old tribal women/women/aunts ...dit reën paddas en platannasit's raining frogs and toadspo bie litarë-litarë[rain] is falling like ropesLa frase “It’s raining cats and dogs” (llueve a cántaros) es un modismo popular inglés que se utiliza para describir las fuertes lluvias. Aunque es una expresión común, su origen y significado siguen siendo un misterio.
rain cats and ˈdogs (also rain ˈbuckets) (informal) (usually used in progressive tenses) rain very heavily: We can’t possibly play golf today. It’s raining cats and dogs out there. ♢ It’s been raining buckets all morning. The expression ‘raining cats and dogs’ may come from Norse mythology.
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Online Etymology Dictionary External - A free online dictionary of word origins.World Wide Words External - The English language is forever changing: World Wide Words tries to record at least a part of this shifting wordscape by featuring new words, word histories, words in th...Ammer, Christine. Cool cats, top dogs, and other beastly expressions.Boston, Houghton Mifflin, c1999. 266 p.Brewer’s dictionary of phrase and fable. 17th ed. Rev. by John Ayto. New York, Collins, 2...Franza, Jackie. It’s raining cats and dogs: making sense of animal phrases.Illustrated by Steve Gray. Irvine, CA, BowTie Press, c2005. 64 p. (Juvenile)Hendrickson, Robert. The Henry Holt encyclopedia of word and phrase origins.1st Owl Book ed. New York, Holt, 1990. 581 p.Klingel, Cynthia Fitterer. It’s as clear as a bell! (and other curious things we say).Illustrated by Mernie Gallagher-Cole. Mankato, MN, The Child’s World, c2010. 24 p. (Juvenile)The term raining cats and dogs derives from Victorian times when household pets, like cats and dogs, slept during the night on the eaves of houses. When it rained heavily, the water from the roof washed them off the eaves, and they came down with the torrent of water from the roofs of houses.
Significado de rain cats and dogs en inglés. rain cats and dogs. idiom. to rain very heavily: Don't forget to take your umbrella - it's raining cats and dogs out there. Preparing for your Cambridge English exam? Amplía tu vocabulario con English Vocabulary in Use de Cambridge. Aprende las palabras que necesitas para comunicarte con confianza.
