rain cats and dogs

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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)

  1. (idiomatic) To rain very heavily.
    Synonyms: bucket, bucket down, chuck it down, rain buckets, rain dogs and cats, rain pitchforks, pelt, piss down, pour, stream, teem

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