| 单词 | to blow cats and dogs |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto blow (also pour) cats and dogs 2. to rain cats and dogs: to rain very heavily. Also attributive, raining heavily. Similarly to blow (also pour) cats and dogs. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > rain > rain falls [verb (intransitive)] > rain heavily ropec1450 to ding down1554 to come down1597 to ding onc1650 to rain cats and dogs1661 sile1703 pour1737 teem1753 pepper1767 flood1813 to rain pitchforks1815 rash1824 spate1853 bucket1926 tipplea1930 piss1948 the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wet weather > [adjective] > wet (of weather, place, or time) > rainy > very pouring1577 to rain cats and dogs1849 torrential1849 a1652 R. Brome City Wit iv. i. sig. D7v, in Five New Playes (1653) It shall raine..Dogs and Polecats.] 1661 T. Flatman Don Juan Lamberto (new ed.) ii. iv. sig. L Here we have Houses over our heads, so that if it should rain Dogs and Cats we could have no harm. 1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 178 I know Sir John will go, tho' he was sure it would rain Cats and Dogs. 1766 P. Thicknesse Observ. Customs Fr. Nation 106 It blows cats and dogs, as the sailors say. 1819 P. B. Shelley Let. 25 Feb. (1964) II. 78 It began raining cats & dogs. 1848 P. Hawker Diary (1893) II. 292 It blew great guns and poured cats and dogs. 1849 W. M. Thackeray in Scribner's Mag. 1 551/1 Pouring with rain..and the most dismal..cat and dog day. 1949 A. Wilson Wrong Set 188 It always ‘rained cats and dogs’. 1997 Brainwaves Catal. (Innovations Plc) Christmas 24/1 When it's raining cats and dogs—this umbrella says it all! < as lemmas |
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