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Rain cats and dogs

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To rain very heavily. idiomatic, impersonal

    "["]Those weather-gaws aren't out for nothing. It'll rain cats and dogs to-morrow." Marigold wondered what weather-gaws were—and then forgot in thinking how interesting it would be in it really rained cats and dogs. Little silk-eared kittens everywhere by the basketful—loads of darling pudgy puppies."

  2. 2
    rain heavily wordnet

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