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Hrsanei Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary

Snowing like cats and dogs

Hi.
As we say it is raining cats and dog.
I wonder if we have similar idioms for snow, Does it sound weird to your ears if you hear someone say it is snowing cats and dogs.
Thank you
Hamid
  

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hrsanei Does it sound weird to your ears if you hear someone say it is snowing cats and dogs. Yes, it sounds weird. A combination of lots of wind and snow is a blizzard , but that's not really an idiom.

— CalifJim

  • hrsanei Does it sound weird to your ears if you hear someone say it is snowing cats and dogs.
  • Yes, it sounds weird.
  • A combination of lots of wind and snow is a blizzard , but that's not really an idiom.
  • I don't know any idioms for snow that are the equivalent of that idiom for rain.
  • CJ
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hrsaneiDoes it sound weird to your ears if you hear someone say it is snowing cats and dogs.
Yes, it sounds weird.
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Thank you Jim.
Yeah, blizzard and snowstrom are good choices.
What about saying it is snowing heavily.
Thank you
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hrsaneiWhat about saying it is snowing heavily.
That's fine.

CJ
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Hi,
That was exactly my question to ask.
Thank you Hamid for asking that and thank you CJ for your reply.

Iman
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Yes you could say it is Snowing cats and dogs. It would make sence to say that.

Your welcome

Jackie

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hrsanei it is snowing cats and dogs.

No. We say that about rain, I've always thought, because of the violence with which the raindrops hit. Snow drifts down softly, or at least it doesn't hit very hard even in wind. We don't seem to have any similar expression for snow, probably because the Gulf Stream has always kept England's climate relatively mild. If i

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