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Meaning of rain cats and dogs | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C2

Definitions

To rain very heavily.

idiomatic, impersonal

Equivalents

Čeština lít jako z konve

Examples

“["]Those weather-gaws aren't out for nothing. It'll rain cats and dogs to-morrow." Marigold wondered what weather-gaws were—and then forgot in thinking how interesting it would be in it really rained cats and dogs. Little silk-eared kittens everywhere by the basketful—loads of darling pudgy puppies.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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