Rain cats and dogs
Idiom / PhraseSSC PYQ × 5Meaning
To rain very heavily
हिंदी अर्थ
मूसलाधार बारिश
Example sentences
It was raining cats and dogs and four people still came.
The phrase is common and its origin is disputed.
Daily use: Musladhar barish ho rahi hai.
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Memory trick · Prashant Sir
सोचिए गली में इतना पानी बह रहा है कि लगे आसमान से कुत्ते-बिल्लियाँ बरस रहे हैं। इतनी तेज़ बारिश।
Picture a street so flooded that it looks as if cats and dogs are pouring down from the sky. That is how heavy the rain is.
Exam note
Synonym options torrential और deluge हैं; drizzle और arid trap हैं। 'raining like cats and dogs' कभी मत लिखिए, यहाँ 'like' गलत है।
Synonym options are 'torrential' and 'deluge'; 'drizzle' and 'arid' are traps. Never write 'raining like cats and dogs'; the word 'like' is wrong here.