Raining cats and dogs - your part of the country?

[sirrahbed]

I was just chuckling over Donna "moosmom" thread about underwear in a snit and the fact that the expression has different versions depending on where we live. (panties in a knot, knickers in a twist)

So, do you have a version of the expression "raining cats and dogs" - meaning raining really hard.. in your area? Is it any different?

[DJFyrewolf36]

John told me that in Arizona they used to call heavy rains Frog Stranglers because the flash flooding would hit so quick it would kill frogs!

In Nevada if it rains heavy, most of us just stand around looking confused going "What the H**L?" lol

And at least my variant of Knickers in a knot (Mom loves that phrase lol) is "Panties in a twitch"

[Samantha Puppy]

I know the phrase "raining cats and dogs" but I don't know that I've ever heard anyone actually say it in conversation outside of my elementary school teachers! LOL Usually someone just exclaims "Holy $hit, look at the rain!" or "Damn, that's comin' down hard isn't it?"

As for the 'underwear in a snit' variation for my area - it's "panties in a bunch", as in " Geez, don't get your panties in a bunch!"

[carole]

Nope same expression here raining cats and dogs, and that is exactly what it is doing here today,

[luvofallhorses]

I have never heard of "underwear in a snit" LOL like SamanthaPuppy said, it's underwear in a bunch, here.

It's raining cats and dogs here!!! I love it!!!

[jazzcat]

It's just "raining cats and dogs" around here. "Panties in a wad" is more the saying here or sometimes it's "drawers in a wad" (said like doors with an r after the d). I guess that is more the redneck saying.

[kittycats_delight]

raining cats and dogs...well in newfoundland I always heard my grandmother use...it's "pelting out of the heavens" and another one I have heard recently here in Ontario is "the heaven's have opened up".

[Maya & Inka's mommy]

We say: it is raining pipe-stems!!!


n Dutch: Het regent pijpestelen!

[ParNone]

I don't know if they use this in the rest of Texas, but down here in Houston, where we have Gullys and Bayous vs Creeks and Rivers, we'll say a big rain is a "Gully Washer".

Par...

[Pawsitive Thinking]

Yeah - we call it "Summer" (eh Killearn Kitties?)

[Killearn Kitties]

We do indeed. Not much point getting your knickers in a twist when the heavens open and it rains cats and dogs!

[Pawsitive Thinking]

LOL!

[sirrahbed]

We have several PT'ers who are in the family way, with child - you know, they have a bun in the oven. Sometimes we all have to be excused to follow the call of nature and visit the ladies room (or mens room). Sometimes we may have woken up on the wrong side of the bed, feel under the weather and might even have to run like the dickens to the ladies room to toss our cookies or lose our lunch

I hope ya'll keep talking about language, silly and interesting phrases and the whole nine yards

[Samantha Puppy]

Yep, I done got knocked up.

ROFL

[Sonia59]

For the rain, we say "it's raining ropes", or cords, I don't know what's the best word to translate. But more commonly in the North of France and Belgium, we just say: oh, no! Week-end has started!!! Isn't it Lut?