rain cats and dogs

[rain cats and dogs] or [rain buckets] or [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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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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