Raining Cats And Dogs Metaphor. Actually, i'm pretty sure it's a idiom, a phrase that can not be taken seriously. Cats are cleaner than dogs.
However, this idiom has variations that occurred even earlier. That in north european myth cats supposedly influence weather and dogs symbolize wind; During heavy rain, the animals would be washed out of the thatch, and the falling could be considered raining as a joke that became a popular phrase.
A) a metaphor b) a simile c) a smile d) a bad joke 4) 'it is raining cats an dogs' suggests that.
Tragically, it's not illegal to kill and eat pets in canada. Whether swift coined 'raining cats and dogs' and whether he meant that to be a reference to the animals being washed through the streets in heavy weather is entirely speculative. It's informal british for raining heavily. That in north european myth cats supposedly influence weather and dogs symbolize wind;