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Title:	What terrible weather!
Answer:	It's raining cats and dogs

Hints:	1. Household pets 2. An expression about heavy rain

Equivalents:	1. It's pouring buckets

Explanation:	According to wikianswers.com nobody knows for sure, but possible explanations are: The archaic French catdoupe is a waterfall or cataract, lightning and thunder sounds like that of a cat/dog fight, cats had a big influence on the weather, and the sky dog Odin was attended to by wolves according to Norse Mythology. Another theory is that in old England, they had hay roofs on their houses and the cats and dogs would sleep on the roof. When it rained, the roofs got slippery and the cats and dogs would slide off of the roofs. There for it was 'Raining Cats and Dogs'.
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Game Summary Statistics

Average Rating		3.5
# of votes		16
# of Garbage Votes		2
# of Garbage Votes by native speakers		0

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Total found: 16 !
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Guest

Rating: 5

November 13, 2018

Guest

Rating: 5

August 3, 2014

Karin R.
(native speaker)

Rating: 3

October 28, 2013

good

lucia R.

Rating: 4

February 13, 2013

Instead of "It's raining cats and dogs", in Spanish we say "Llueve a cántaros"

Guest

Rating: 0

January 10, 2013

Instead of "It's raining cats and dogs", in Polish we say "leje jak z cebra"

Kati

Rating: 3

April 8, 2012

Instead of "It's raining cats and dogs", in German we say "Es gießt wie aus Eimern."

PILAR

Rating: 4

March 22, 2012

Instead of "It's raining cats and dogs", in Spanish we say "Hace un día de perros."

estelle p.

Rating: 0

July 28, 2011

Instead of "It's raining cats and dogs", in French we say "Il pleut à verse"

Delphine

Rating: 2

February 5, 2011

Instead of "It's raining cats and dogs", in French we say "Quel temps de chien!"

Sergey K.

Rating: 4

November 20, 2010

Instead of "It's raining cats and dogs", in Russian we say "Льёт как из ведра"

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