Cats and Dogs
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FERET
Surin relic
Q) How did you know it was raining cats and dogs ?.
A) I just stepped in a poodle !.
nomad97
Resident Geek
What's the meaning of the phrase 'Raining cats and dogs'?
Raining very heavily.
Origin - the short version
No one knows the precise source of the 17th century expression 'raining cats and dogs', but we can be sure that it didn't originate because animals fell from the sky.
Origin - the full story
This is an interesting old English phrase in that, although we don't know who coined it or why, it has spawned a host of speculative derivations. Let's can get the fanciful proposed derivations out of the way...
The phrase isn't in any sense literal, that is, it doesn't record an incident where cats and dogs fell from the sky. Small creatures, of the size of frogs or fish, do occasionally get carried skywards in freak weather, but there's no record of groups of them being scooped up in that way and causing this phrase to be coined. Not that we need to study meteorological records for that - it's plainly implausible.
See full explanation here: https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/raining-cats-and-dogs.html
Raining very heavily.
Origin - the short version
No one knows the precise source of the 17th century expression 'raining cats and dogs', but we can be sure that it didn't originate because animals fell from the sky.
Origin - the full story
This is an interesting old English phrase in that, although we don't know who coined it or why, it has spawned a host of speculative derivations. Let's can get the fanciful proposed derivations out of the way...
The phrase isn't in any sense literal, that is, it doesn't record an incident where cats and dogs fell from the sky. Small creatures, of the size of frogs or fish, do occasionally get carried skywards in freak weather, but there's no record of groups of them being scooped up in that way and causing this phrase to be coined. Not that we need to study meteorological records for that - it's plainly implausible.
See full explanation here: https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/raining-cats-and-dogs.html
Prakhonchai Nick
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Perhaps if I go and cut the grass...............usually works!
Rice
Resident Smart Arse
I will wash the car and leave the windows down. That will work for sure!
Ivor the Engine
Nowhere man
I always thought that it came from the fact that thatched roofs were ‘homes’ of all sorts of creatures as they were warm , until it rained, then they left their sanctuary & it ‘rained cats & dogs’.
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FERET
Surin relic
Shit loads of lightning to the East @ 04.00 but, not a drop of rain.
Yorky
Fullritis Member
I wonder what the origin of that phrase is?
FERET
Surin relic
I believe that the phrase started out as, " Ship loads " but was changed by filthy bastards like me.
Yorky
Fullritis Member
Definitely would be welcomed by me.
But that forecast was a week ago and we've seen bugger all rain in my end of the village since.
[Plenty of cats and soi dogs though!]
Ivor the Engine
Nowhere man
I was told from Tuesday this week for 3 or 4 days
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Eanto
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By chance, I brought the washing in earlier