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it's raining cats and dogs

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Is this idiom widely used?
What other weather idioms used in modern English could you think of ("at a push")?
 
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englishhobby said:
Is this idiom widely used?
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It's pretty uncommon outside English course books.

Informally, we say it's bucketing/chucking it/p*ssing down in Br E.
 
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