rain cats and dogs

English

Alternative forms

rain dogs and cats (rare)

Etymology

Unknown, but see examples of early use in Citations.

Pronunciation

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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)

(impersonal, idiomatic) To rain very heavily.
Synonyms: bucket, bucket down, chuck it down, come down cats and dogs, rain buckets, rain pitchforks, pelt, (vulgar) piss down, (vulgar) piss it down, pour, pour cats and dogs, storm cats and dogs, stream, teem, tip it down
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Derived terms

cats and dogs

Translations

to rain very heavily

Arabic: أَمْطَرَ بِغَزَارَة (ʔamṭara bi-ḡazāra)
Azerbaijani: tut ucundan, göyə çıx
Breton: Gwelet a ran da gazh er jardin
Bulgarian: вали́ като из ведро́ (valí kato iz vedró)
Catalan: ploure a bots i barrals (ca)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 落狗屎 (yue) (lok⁶ gau² si²)

Hokkien: 㴙㴙落 (zh-min-nan) (tsa̍p-tsa̍p-lo̍h)

Mandarin: 傾盆大雨／倾盆大雨 (zh) (qīngpéndàyǔ), 暴雨如注 (zh) (bàoyǔrúzhù)
Czech: lít jako z konve (cs), padat trakaře
Dutch: pijpenstelen regenen (nl), regenen dat het giet
Esperanto: pluvegi
Finnish: sataa kaatamalla, sataa äkäisiä ämmiä äkeet selässä, sataa kuin saavista kaataen
French: pleuvoir des cordes (fr), pleuvoir à verse (fr), pleuvoir des hallebardes (fr), pleuvoir comme vache qui pisse (fr), (Québec) pleuvoir à boire debout (fr), (Belgium) dracher (fr), pleuvoir à seaux (fr)
Galician: arroiar, diluviar, chover a chuzos, chover a cachón (gl), chover a Deus dar auga
Georgian: კოკისპირული წვიმა (ḳoḳisṗiruli c̣vima)
German: Bindfäden regnen (de), in Strömen regnen (de), aus allen Kannen gießen, aus allen Kannen schütten, es schüttet wie aus Eimern
Greek: βρέχει με το τουλούμι (vréchei me to touloúmi), ρίχνει καρεκλοπόδαρα (ríchnei kareklopódara), ρίχνει καντάρια (ríchnei kantária)
Hungarian: zuhog, mintha dézsából öntenék (hu)
Icelandic: vera mígandi rigning, rigna eldi og brennisteini
Interlingua: pluver torrentialmente
Irish: sceana gréasaí a chur
Italian: piovere a catinelle, diluviare (it), scrosciare (it), piovere come Dio la manda
Japanese: 土砂降りになる (どしゃぶりになる, doshaburi ni naru)
Korean: 비가 억수같이 쏟아진다 (bi-ga eoksu-gachi ssodajinda)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: høljeregne (no), høljregne (no), regne sinte kjerringer (literally “rain mad hags”)

Nynorsk: høljeregne, ausregne
Polish: lać jak z cebra (pl)
Portuguese: o céu vir abaixo, chover a cântaros (pt) (Portugal), chover a potes (Portugal), cair um toró (Brazil), chover canivetes (Brazil)
Romanian: ploua cu găleata
Russian: лить как из ведра́ (litʹ kak iz vedrá)
Slovak: liať ako z krhly
Spanish: llover a cántaros (es), llover a mares (es)
Swedish: ösregna (sv), spöregna (sv), stå som spön i backen (sv)
Turkish: bardaktan boşalırcasına yağmak, şakır şakır yağmur
Vietnamese: (trời) mưa xối xả, (trời) mưa như trút
Welsh: bwrw hen wragedd â ffyn (cy)

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