rain cats and dogs
English
Alternative forms
- rain dogs and cats (rare)
Etymology
Unknown, but see Etymology in Citations.
Verb
rain cats and dogs (third-person singular simple present rains cats and dogs, present participle raining cats and dogs, simple past and past participle rained cats and dogs)
- (idiomatic) To rain very heavily.
- Synonyms: bucket, bucket down, chuck it down, rain buckets, rain pitchforks, pelt, piss down (vulgar), piss it down (vulgar), pour, rain pitchforks, stream, teem
Translations
to rain very heavily
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