storm cats and dogs

verb

To storm and rain heavily; synonym of rain cats and dogs.

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Meanings

verbstorm cats and dogs (third-person singular simple present storms cats and dogs, present participle storming cats and dogs, simple past and past participle stormed cats and dogs)

present singular third person storms cats and dogs · participle present storming cats and dogs · participle past stormed cats and dogs · past stormed cats and dogs

  1. To storm and rain heavily; synonym of rain cats and dogs.

    It was storming cats and dogs, with lighting and thunder.

    2011, Tommy Chamberlain, A Spoon Full of Sugar, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 7
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    About 10 o'clock, Burdell pushed forth into the wind and the rain — it was storming cats and dogs — and headed for his home at 31 Bond.

    1913, Pearson's Magazine, page 376

    Annie was standing beside the stove, showing her assistant, a Finnish girl from the village, how to flip bacon grease up and over frying eggs. “I think it is going to storm cats and dogs today, Dad,” announced Danny, jerking his thumb […]

    1934, Nancy Noon Kendall, The New House

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
rain cats and dogs
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