Citations:cats and dogs

English citations of cats and dogs

• 2011, John Salmon, PHD, Family By God's Design: A Celebrating Community of Honor and Grace, WestBow Press (→ISBN), page 147:

  Although it was a beautiful day, it had rained the previous night and the church roof was leaking cats and dogs. Roofers stomped around up on the roof and down below huge buckets lined the hallways to catch the dripping water. I didn't care […]

downpour of cats and dogs

• 1901, Ellen Wood (Mrs. Henry Wood), Johnny Ludlow: sixth series, page 361:

  With a good blinding snowfall, or a pelting downpour of cats and dogs, I might have hoped for a respited What a Christmas offering for my mother! I say!

• 1980, Kenneth Patchen, Still Another Pelican in the Breadbox (→ISBN):

  […] finding no razor blades in the next-to-the-top drawer of his mother's chiffonier, where he always kept them, walked 17 miles through a downpour of cats and dogs to return an old battered biscuit tin to a Mrs. Swangleam, also old and battered.

• 1994, David Comfort, The First Pet History of the World, Touchstone (→ISBN)

  Hardly had the ark disappeared in the downpour of cats and dogs than his neighbor, in poncho and rainboots, gleefully appropriated the madman's winery. After the Flood, Noah, his kids, his pets, and all the descendants of the original  […]

• 2010, Helen Howington, All in a Lifetime, AuthorHouse (→ISBN), page 32:

  Many times, he would arrive soaking wet as the Florida skies had opened up in a sudden downpour of cats and dogs. Helen would wring out his shirt and put it out to dry, as clothes dryers were on the drawing board somewhere in the future.

• 2012, Floyd Little, Tom Mackie, Promises to Keep: My Inspired Run from Syracuse to Denver to the Hall, Triumph Books (→ISBN):

  One rainy Christmas we were out playing for $1 a hole. The day started with drizzle and by the time we were on the back nine there was a downpour of cats and dogs all  […]

• 2016, Liane Moriarty, Truly Madly Guilty, Flatiron Books (→ISBN):

  “A veritable downpour of cats and dogs!” “Um, yes. So I was pleased to see you here, actually,” said the woman. She held a child's tiny transparent umbrella tightly over her head. The rest of her was getting wet.

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• 1980, All the Year Round: A Collection of Short Stories and Poems to Be Read Aloud, Evans Brothers, Limited (→ISBN):

  Immediately the black clouds parted, and out of the sky there came an absolute downpour of cats and dogs. Big dogs and little dogs, and nice cats and nasty cats, dozens of them falling everywhere, barking and meowing and fighting among ...