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Raining cats and dogs - the meaning and origin of this phrase. ... dogs, cats and other small animals, mice, rats, bugs, all lived in the roof. When it rained it became slippery so sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof. Thus the saying, "it's raining cats and dogs."
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"The weather was horrible on Saturday. It was raining cats and dogs all day." ... "It's really awful weather outside. It's windy and is raining cats and dogs." ... We use this idiom to say that is is (or was) raining VERY heavily. (It doesn't mean that cats and dogs are falling out the sky!)
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Definition of It's raining cats and dogs in the Idioms Dictionary. It's raining cats and dogs phrase. What does It's raining cats and dogs expression mean? Definitions by the largest Idiom Dictionary. ... It's raining cats and dogs; It's raining cats and dogs!; It's raining it's pouring; It's Raining Men; It's Raining Men...
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The origins of the English idiom, it's raining cats and dogs are uncertain, though the most likely source is a satirical poem by Jonathan Swift, A Description of a City Shower, first published in Tatler magazine in 1710. The poem includes the lines "Drown'd Puppies, stinking Sprats, all drench'd in Mud / Dead Cats...
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DO YOU KNOW WHERE THE SAYING ITS RAINING CATS AND DOGS CAME FROM Back in the 1500s I heard was when the saying Its raining cats and dogs came from Pets usually stayed outside ... Back in the 1500s, I heard, was when the saying "It's raining cats and dogs" came from. Pets usually stayed...
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When David Peckinpaugh checked into the upscale Loews Coronado Bay Resort in San Diego with his wife, two kids, two dogs and a hamster, even he was surprised by what he saw. ... "It looks like Noah's ark down there," says Peckinpaugh, who is CEO of the San Diego Convention & Visitors Bureau.
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Its Raining Cats-N-Dogs is a NYC based pet Photographer Studio. We do lifestyle portraits of your pet both in the studio and on location. We take photos of all animals including, but not limited too, cats, dogs, lizards, snakes and large spiders. ... Can't see our site? ... You need to upgrade your Flash Player...
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As with many such questions , the jury is out on this one. World Wide Words offers several possible derivations for the saying, including an old sailor's myth that cats have sway over the weather. Feline meteorological magic, coupled with a...
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