Do any other languages/ countries have colloquial phrases for it chucking it down with rain involving animals falling from the sky? Or is it just a local (UK) phenomenon?
2007-07-20 09:03:40 · 19 answers · asked by nickip 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
Thanks :-) all the US respondents - didn't want to presume it was a saying outside the UK! Anyone got other animals raining down though?
2007-07-20 09:12:50 · update #1
I remember this from long ago, because of the oddity that
"it's raining old ladies with sticks"
relects the idiom in both Welsh and Afrikaans.
Ah, Google is my friend.
Danish, apparently translates as
"it's raining shoemakers' apprentices "
2007-07-20 10:59:14 · answer #1 · answered by Pedestal 42 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-10 17:43:48 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It rains Cats and Dogs in America too!
2007-07-20 09:10:59 · answer #3 · answered by kaysie_parten 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to the Old Testament it rains frogs in Egypt, but times change, so this may not still be true.
2007-07-20 19:47:37 · answer #4 · answered by cymry3jones 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some people here in the US use the same term. FYI: Other terms for the same "happening" include: Raining "sheets."
2007-07-20 09:10:44 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It rains Kangaroos and Wombats here in Austrailia
2007-07-20 09:48:36 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
it rains cats and dogs in the US too - the other day I was walking in the rain and I stepped in a poodle.
2007-07-20 09:19:52 · answer #7 · answered by Window 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
In France it rains ropes.
2007-07-20 09:15:58 · answer #8 · answered by Cerebus_shun 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What about Komodo Dragons in the Islands of Komodo?
2007-07-20 09:17:33 · answer #9 · answered by Peggy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In Welsh the saying is "Mae'n bwrw hen wragedd a ffyn."
(It's raining old ladies and sticks).
2007-07-20 10:53:20 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋