Do you know what "rainning cats and dogs" mean.?

Answer 1

It just means it's raining heavily.

There is a lot of speculation, but this site lists a lot of theories of the origin:
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/raining%20cats%20and%20dogs.html

Answer 2

Here goes though - take your pick:

1. It comes from mythology. Witches, who often took the form of their familiars - cats, are supposed to have ridden the wind. Dogs and wolves were attendants to Odin, the god of storms and sailors associated them with rain. Well, some evidence would be nice. There doesn't appear to be any to support this notion.

2. Cats and dogs were supposed to be washed from roofs during heavy weather. This is a widely repeated tale. It got a lease of life with the message "Life in the 1500s", which began circulating on the Internet in 1999. Here's the relevant part of that:

I'll describe their houses a little. You've heard of thatch roofs, well that's all they were. Thick straw, piled high, with no wood underneath. They were the only place for the little animals to get warm. So all the pets; dogs, cats and other small animals, mice, rats, bugs, all lived in the roof. When it rained it became slippery so sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof. Thus the saying, "it's raining cats and dogs."

This is nonsense of course. It hardly needs debunking, but, lest there be any doubt...

Dogs lived in thatched roofs? No, of course they didn't. Even accepting that mad idea, for them to have slipped off when it rained they would have needed to be on the outside - hardly the place an animal would head for to shelter from bad weather.

3. The phrase is supposed to have originated in England in the 17th century when city streets were filthy and heavy rain would occasionally carry along dead animals.

The idea that seeing dead cats and dogs floating by in storms would cause people to coin this phrase is just about believable. People may not have actually thought the animals had come from the sky, but might have made up the phrase to suit the occasion.

4. Another suggestion is that it comes from a version of the French word, catadoupe, meaning waterfall.

Answer 3

It just means it's raining very hard. I heard the origin of the phrase is something along the lines of people used to keep their pets on the roof, which was made of tin, and when it rained hard, it would get slippery and they would fall off.

Answer 4

Its when the rain is coming down so hard that theres so much of it coming down that its making sounds on the roof like cats and dogs going at it. fighting.on the roof.

Answer 5

raining cats and dogs means it`s raining really hard.I have no idea how they got cats and dogs but that's what it means

Answer 6

The same thing as "It's a frog-strangler." Lots of rain.

Answer 7

raining heavily

Answer 8

its raining really hard

Answer 9

hard, very hard