rain\ cats\ and\ dogs

rain\ cats\ and\ dogs
• rain cats and dogs
• rain buckets
• rain pitchforks
v. phr. informal
To rain very hard; come down in torrents.

In the middle of the picnic it started to rain cats and dogs, and everybody got soaked.

Terry looked out of the window and said, "It's raining pitchforks, so we can't go out to play right now."


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