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Can it
rain cats and dogs?: questions
and answers about weather
Provides answers to such questions about the weather as "What makes the weather?", "Does air have weight?", "How big are hailstones?", and "What is El Niño?"
Melvin Berger, Gilda Berger, 1999
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Phraseologie: ein internationales Handbuch zeitgenössischer ...
More opaque idioms, such as rain cats and dogs 'rain heavily' and kick the bucket
'die', were generally less frequent than more transparent phrases, such as (follow
) in someone's footsteps 'copy' and on the horizon 'imminent, likely, expected'.
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Convention: A Philosophical Study
Today's Daily printed this story: Tomorrow it will rain cats and dogs. I should not
expect it to rain cats and dogs. I should not expect the residents of Dogpatch to
expect it to rain cats and dogs. I should not expect the residents of Charlie City to
...
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Cartoon-illustrated Metaphors: Idioms, Proverbs, Cliches, ...
... English playwright Richard Brome wrote in The City Witt: "lt shall rain dogs and
polecats " !! ln 1783, Jonathan Swift wrote in Polite Conversation: "l know Sir
John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs; but pray stay, Sir
John ...
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Speaking of Animals: A Dictionary of Animal Metaphors
A similar expression, to fight like cats in a bag, suggests a cruel game for the
amusement of sadistic humans. DOC; ID. See also Catfight; Make the Fur Fly;
Rain Cats and Dogs. FIGHT LIKE CATS IN A BAG See Fight like Cats and Dogs.
Robert Allen Palmatier, 1995
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Six Words You Never Knew Had Something to Do with Pigs:
And ...
... and applied it to the meteorological phenomenon (because I guess if you look
at clouds from a distance, they kind of look like hills off on the horizon). RAIN
CATS AND DOGS No one really knows where “rain cats and dogs” comes from ...
The metaphors in cost an arm and a leg and twist someone round your little
finger are relatively transparent; in contrast, kick the bucket and rain cats and
dogs are almost impossible to interpret. What has kicking buckets to do with
death, and ...
Murray Knowles, Rosamund Moon, 2006
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Oxford Dictionary of English Idioms
"fin it never rains but it pours misfortunes or difficult situations tend to follow each
other in rapid succession or to arrive all at the same time. rain cats and dogs rain
very hard. 0 Despite much speculation, there is no consensus as to the origin of ...
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Linguistic Meaning (RLE Linguistics A: General Linguistics)
*It rained very cats and dogs. b. *It rained cats and dogser. ?*It rained more cats
and dogs.18 c. *It rained cats(est) and dogsest of all. Rain cats and dogs is a
polylexemic idiom that must be entered in the dictionary as a whole, even though
the ...
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The Spirit of the Prophet Yacub
Did it ever rain cats and dogs? I don't think so. The term could have come from
the role the ancient Egyptians assigned to the cat and the dog as companions to
the gods and goddesses who ruled over the climate. The cat was associated with
...
Yacub Nsangou Washington, 2010
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Tough times rain cats and dogs
"What they must not do is lie and say the cat is being handed in because it messes in the house or the dog has snapped at a child. "This can compromise the ... «Times LIVE, 7월 15»
