Meteorologist Tiffany Savona: Growing up, I would hear my parents say, “It's raining cats and dogs.” As a young child, you ...

If you've ever uttered the phrase, "It's raining cats and dogs," you may have thought it was a bizarre way to describe heavy rainfall. After all, it conjures images of cats and dogs tumbling from ...

Therefore, saying it’s raining “cats and dogs” might metaphorically imply that it’s raining waterfalls. The earliest recorded usage of the phrase dates back to 1651, ...

Dear Tom,I have always wondered where the saying, “It’s raining cats and dogs”, comes from. Do you know?Katherine F., Lombard Dear Katherine, Among several explanations for this saying, a ...

First of all, the expression "it's raining cats and dogs" is a well-known English idiom used to describe a heavy rainstorm. Snopes previously wrote about the idiom's origins in an article ...

There is a weather-related phrase about heavy precipitation that says, “It’s raining cats and dogs.” That is the way it is with this rumor about Haitians in Springfield, Ohio. The lies are ...