[TUHS] Shower of Dogs.

Douglas McIlroy douglas.mcilroy at dartmouth.edu
Thu Feb 17 02:57:28 AEST 2022


Lorinda kept dobermans as household pets and show dogs. She even had
an RV for taking them to exhibit in distant shows. She eventually
switched to rescuing retired racing greyhounds and sold the RV.

Doug

On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 9:09 AM Andrew Hume <andrew at humeweb.com> wrote:
>
> lorinda was an avid dog owner.
> she spent a long time recycling racing greyhounds.
> she would own a few of these at any one time
>
> > On Feb 16, 2022, at 6:05 AM, Ralph Corderoy <ralph at inputplus.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Doug wrote:
> >> Then, while there were several pilots among us,
> >> there was only one shower of dogs
> >
> > What's a shower of dogs refer to in this context?
> >
> > I've been mulling it over for a while.  I checked Wiktionary for shower
> > and dogs and nothing obvious pops out as to what the phrase may mean in
> > American to this English speaker.
> >
> > --
> > Cheers, Ralph.
>


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