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"...There are several theories about this rainfall saying. It is possible that the word cat is derived from the Greek word 'catadupe' meaning 'waterfall.' Or it could be raining 'cata doxas,' which is Latin for 'contrary to experience,' or UNUSUAL FALL OF RAIN..."
yeah it just means that it's raining really heavy
It means that it is raining very heavily.
yes, it means its raining very heavily
It means that it is raining really hard.
um not really it means that something is really crazy.
Outside is raining heavy.
The rain drops are falling straight down instead of at a slant.
raining heavily
it means its raining cats and dogs! don't let one pee on u! and get on as fast as u can before they run out!
Yep, it means raining heavily!
Yep, raining heavy in sheets, large drops.
Raining Heavily. Out of curriosity how old r u? imean no offence but that seems like a question a five year old would ask.
Back in the middle ages, house were built pretty low to the ground. When it rained people for whatever reason (it was explained to me but I forget) put their animals on the roof. If it rained so hard that the animals slipped and fell off the roof, it was determined to be raining cats and dogs.
We have all heard the expression "it's raining cats and dogs." There are several theories about this rainfall saying. It is possible that the word cat is derived from the Greek word 'catadupe' meaning 'waterfall.' Or it could be raining 'cata doxas,' which is Latin for 'contrary to experience,' or an unusual fall of rain.
In Northern mythology the cat is supposed to have great influence on the weather, and English sailors still say the cat has a gale of wind in her tail when she is unusually frisky. Witches that rode upon the storms were said to assume the form of cats; and the stormy northwest wind is called the cat's nose in the Harz mountains even at the present day. The dog is a signal of wind, like the wolf. Both animals were attendants of Odin, the storm-god. In old German pictures the wind is figured as the "head of a dog or wolf," from which blasts issue. The cat therefore symbolizes the down-pouring of rain, and the dog the strong gusts of wind that accompany a rainstorm; and a rain of "cats and dogs" is a heavy rain with wind.
The Bible describes a rain of manna and quails more than 3,000 years ago. At the time this was looked upon as a supernatural event; it was actually not an uncommon thing. The rain of manna has happened frequently in modern times; the manna is really a lichen that grows in great numbers after rains.
There are numerous accounts of rains of frogs, hay, fish, and grain. All of these accounts seem to be due to tornado-like "whirlwinds." A good whirlwind can lift thousands of pounds and carry objects for miles. There is one reliable account of a fishing boat that sailed into a large waterspout. Fish flew everywhere. There are about seventy recorded rains of fish, but nearly all of the rains of fish are small ones. There is, however, one account of a fish fall in India in which more than ten people picked up fish weighing up to eight pounds each. There are many accounts of rains of ice-coated ducks, grasshoppers, fish, and frogs, but there is no account of a raining of cats and dogs (Lockhart, 1988). Photo: Courtesy of Pam Rastall
It means it's raining hard.
It's pouring and old man is snoring !
A DOWN POUR !!! HURRY GET OUT OF RAIN, YOU CATCH YOUR DEATH OF COLD.
Grab your Umbrella, and your Boots, and your raincoat!
It's means that it's raining heavily. There are various theories about the origin, but one is that before proper drainage systems existed many cats and dogs would drown during heavy rains. Thus, it looked like it had been "raining cats and dogs."
actually the phrase is used by someone who refers to cats & dogs, shouting to them "It's raining, cats & dogs!", so they can get an umbrella or go inside their houses to get protected by the rain.
It's pouring down raining!! God Bless you.
Bingo! You got it right. Here are some thoughts as to it's origin:
The saying it's raining cats and dogs was first noted in the 17th century, not the 16th. A number of theories as to its origin exist:
By evoking the image of cats and dogs fighting in a riotous, all-out manner, it expresses the fury of a sudden downpour.
Primitive drainage systems in use in the 17th century could be overwhelmed by heavy rainstorms, leading to gutters overflowing with debris that included dead animals.
In Northen European mythology, it is believed cats influence the weather and dogs represent wind.
The saying might have derived from the obsolete French word catadoupe, meaning waterfall or cataract.
It might have come from a similar-sounding Greek phrase meaning "an unlikely occurrence."
Since there was nothing to stop things from falling into the house they would just try to clean up a lot. But this posed a real problem in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings from animals could really mess up your nice clean bed, so they found if they would make beds with big posts and hang a sheet over the top it would prevent that problem. That's where those beautiful big 4 poster beds with canopies came from.
Canopied four-poster beds were the province of the well-to-do, not the ordinary folk. Possibly their origin had to do with a desire to display wealth conspicuously by showing off rich tapestries and fabrics. Beautifully thick wall hangings were likewise a way of dressing up a room while at the same time putting on the dog a bit. (The hangings also served to keep the warmth of a room in.)
It means that it is raining heavily. The origin of this phrase came from when the houses where covered in straw or hay, and the animals would stay there because it was warm. But, when it was raining enough (like, a storm or something) they would slip off the roof. If that happened, it was like it was 'raining cats and dogs' and people knew it was raining hard.
Today it means that it's raining very hard. This saying originated in England in the 1500 century when people had thatched roofs on their dwellings. Both dogs, cats, probably many other small animals, sought shelter in these roofs. As many homes were built against a hill or rock outcropping to save building materials, it was simple for the animals to gain access to the roof. However, when it really started to rain hard the thatch would give way and cats and dogs would come down with it, thus "raining cats and dogs".
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yes you are right and here are some origin stories of the expression.
The most common one says that in olden times, homes had thatched roofs in which domestic animals such as cats and dogs would like to hide. In heavy rain, the animals would either be washed out of the thatch, or rapidly abandon it for better shelter, so it would seem to be raining cats and dogs. Other suggestions include derivation from an unspecified Greek aphorism that was similar in sound and which meant “an unlikely occurrence”, or that it is a corrupted version of a rare French word, catadoupe, meaning a waterfall. It has also been suggested that at one time the streets of British towns were so poorly constructed that many cats and dogs would drown whenever there was a storm; people seeing the corpses floating by would think they had fallen from the sky, like the proverbial rains of frogs.
The most favoured one in the references I have found is mythological. It seems that cats were at one time thought to have influence over storms, especially by sailors, and that dogs were symbols of storms, often accompanying images and descriptions of the Norse storm god Odin. So when some particularly violent tempest appeared, people suggested it was caused by cats (bringing the rain) and dogs (the wind).
There is, I have to report, no evidence that I can find for any connection between the saying and the mythology other than the flat assertions of writers. The phrase first appears in its modern form in Jonathan Swift’s A Complete Collection of Polite and Ingenious Conversation in 1738: “I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs”, though a variant form is recorded in 1653 in City Wit, a work of the English playwright Richard Brome, in which he wrote “It shall raine ... Dogs and Polecats”, which seems to suggest a stranger and less easily comprehensible origin.
There are other similes which employ falls of improbable objects as figurative ways of expressing the sensory overload of noise and confusion that can occur during a violent rainstorm; people have said that it’s raining like pitchforks (first recorded in 1815), hammer handles, and even chicken coops. It’s probable that the version with cats and dogs fits into this model, without needing to invoke supernatural beliefs or inadequate drainage.
You're right it means its raining very heavily. The idiom (saying) comes from the Middle Ages when they used to put the dogs and cats on the roofs of their homes, and when i started to rain hard the dogs and cats would end up falling- hence the saying "its raining cats and dogs"
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yeah it means that it is a really hard weird rain or that bad things are happening
It's raining hard and heavy.
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