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rain cats and dogs

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rain cats and dogs
Fig. to rain very hard. It's raining cats and dogs. Look at it pour! I'm not going out in that storm. It's raining cats and dogs.
See also: and, cat, dog, rain


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"But it'll perhaps rain cats and dogs to-morrow, as it did yesterday, and then you can't go," said Godfrey, hardly knowing whether he wished for that obstacle or not.
Silas Marner by Eliot, George View in context
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