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RAIN CATS AND DOGS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does rain cats and dogs mean?
• RAIN CATS AND DOGS (verb)
The verb RAIN CATS AND DOGS has 1 sense:
1. rain heavily
Familiarity information: RAIN CATS AND DOGS used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Rain heavily
Classified under:
Verbs of raining, snowing, thawing, thundering
Synonyms:
pelt; pour; rain buckets; rain cats and dogs; stream
Context example:
Put on your rain coat-- it's pouring outside!
Hypernyms (to "rain cats and dogs" is one way to...):
rain; rain down (precipitate as rain)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "rain cats and dogs"):
sheet (come down as if in sheets)
sluice; sluice down (pour as if from a sluice)
Sentence frame:
It is ----ing
Sentence example:
It was rain cats and dogsing all day long
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