Education of the Mind: TIL That we're not exactly sure where the idiom 'It's raining cats and dogs' comes from. There are a few theories ranging from cats and dogs being washed away from roofs during storms, an old English word 'Catadupe' which meant a cataract or waterfall, to having roots in Norse mythology.

Thursday, July 13, 2017

TIL That we're not exactly sure where the idiom 'It's raining cats and dogs' comes from. There are a few theories ranging from cats and dogs being washed away from roofs during storms, an old English word 'Catadupe' which meant a cataract or waterfall, to having roots in Norse mythology.

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