Usually means: Heavy, intense, and continuous rainfall.
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  1. rain cats and dogs: Merriam-Webster
  2. rain cats and dogs: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. rain cats and dogs: Collins English Dictionary
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  8. rain cats and dogs: FreeDictionary.org
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Definitions from Wiktionary (rain cats and dogs)

▸ verb:  (impersonal, idiomatic) To rain very heavily.

Similar:
rain buckets, pour, stream, pelt, rain like cats and dogs, storm cats and dogs, cry someone a river, piss like a racehorse, piss like a horse, flood, more...

Opposite:
clear skies, sunny, dry, fair weather

Types:
torrential, pouring, driving, freezing, sleet, hail, more...

Adjectives:
pat, weather, rainy, scud, wintry, inclement, stormie, stormy, wet, thunderstricken, stormful

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Similar:
rain buckets, pour, stream, pelt, rain like cats and dogs, storm cats and dogs, cry someone a river, piss like a racehorse, piss like a horse, flood, more...

Opposite:
clear skies, sunny, dry, fair weather

Types:
torrential, pouring, driving, freezing, sleet, hail, more...

Adjectives:
pat, weather, rainy, scud, wintry, inclement, stormie, stormy, wet, thunderstricken, stormful



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