01-Dec-2007, 07:41
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 Re: Animal idioms
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Originally Posted by cooljamm  raining cats and dogs
its raining very heavily.
now the question is?
how do you associate cats and dogs to raining heavily?
please elaborate on this tnx ........ | hi cooljamm, 
This expession 'raining cats and dogs' may have come from Norse mythology. Cats were supposed to have an influence over the weather, while dogs were the signal of storms.
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