Cats And Dogs Idiom

1 Its raining cats and dogs.

Cats and dogs idiom. Its raining very hard and you will get soaked if you step outside. The plague also known as the black death. They would eat rotten food and carry diseases.

In old English catadupe meant a. Its raining cats and dogs. English Learn ESL EFL school.

ISLAMABAD -- Pet owners have long fought like cats and dogs about whether felines or canines make the best furry companions. Many of them would die in their shelters without anyone noticing. Alternatively cats and dogs could be a corruption or misunderstanding of the Greek word catadupe meaning waterfall so the expression would originally have been its raining like a waterfall.

There is no clear logical connection we can make between cats and dogs falling from the sky and heavy rain. When streets became swollen with rain it is likely there were many dead dogs and cats floating in the flooded streets giving the appearance of having rained cats and dogs. These tiny blood-sucking insects would bite infected rats and then transmit the illness to humans.

The idiom is said to originate in the 17th century. Until the rain came. There is a lot of speculation about the origin of this idiom.

Many historians believe that the expression its raining cats and dogs emerged in London during the Great Plague of 1665. Cats and dogs may be a perversion of the now obsolete word catadupe. How will you go to play Cricket today.