Skip to definition.
Get the FREE one-click dictionary software for Windows or the iPhone/iPad and Android apps


Verb: rain cats and dogs
  1. Rain heavily
    "Put on your rain coat-- it's raining cats and dogs outside!";
    - pour, pelt, stream, rain buckets, tip [Brit], chuck it down [Brit], chuck [Brit], teem, bucket [Brit]

Derived forms: raining cats and dogs, rained cats and dogs, rains cats and dogs

Type of: rain, rain down

Encyclopedia: Rain cats and dogs