[TUHS] Shower of Dogs.

John Cowan cowan at ccil.org
Thu Feb 17 07:25:13 AEST 2022


On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 4:23 PM Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 16 Feb 2022, Rich Morin wrote:
>
> > To understand this, you have to know the American idiom "raining cats
> > and dogs".  A "shower of dogs" is thus a heavy burst of large drops,
> > which would of course be of concern to a pilot (:-).
>
> Also used in British/Australian English; the Americans probably picked it
> up from the British.


What is worse than raining cats and dogs?

Hailing taxis;

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