17 Feb
2022
17 Feb
'22
3:25 a.m.
On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 4:23 PM Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
On Wed, 16 Feb 2022, Rich Morin wrote:
What is worse than raining cats and dogs?
Hailing taxis;
To understand this, you have to know the American
idiom "raining cats
and dogs". A "shower of dogs" is thus a heavy burst of large drops,
which would of course be of concern to a pilot (:-).
Also used in British/Australian English; the Americans probably picked it
up from the British.