rain cats and dogs

Questions about rain cats and dogs

What does rain cats and dogs mean?

rain cats and dogs means "rain heavily".

What is another word for rain cats and dogs?

Close synonyms include pour, pelt, stream, rain buckets. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is rain cats and dogs a common word?

rain cats and dogs is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.