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    What does “raining cats and dogs” mean?

    Raining very hard: the heavy, bouncing-off-the-pavement kind of rain.

    “It’s raining cats and dogs out there and I am not going anywhere.”

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    Where it comes from

    Its origin is unknown. Jonathan Swift used “rain cats and dogs” in his Polite Conversation in 1738, and odder versions turn up earlier in the 1600s. The stories about animals sliding off thatched roofs are later inventions with no evidence behind them.

    What I think of “raining cats and dogs”

    • Raining cats and dogs. As a cat app, I would like to state that no cat would agree to this.
    • If it actually rained cats, they would land on their feet and look annoyed about it.
    • Raining cats and dogs is the sky clearing out its pets before it clears out its clouds.

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    Sources: Jonathan Swift, Polite Conversation (1738).

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