What is another word for cats and dogs?

Pronunciation: [kˈats and dˈɒɡz] (IPA)

The phrase "cats and dogs" is commonly used to describe heavy rain or a tumultuous relationship. However, there are several different synonyms that can be used in its place. Some alternatives for heavy rain include torrential downpour, deluge, storm, and tempestuous weather. To describe a tense or difficult relationship, some phrases to use are fiery, turbulent, rocky, troubled, or volatile. Other options for describing a rainy day include pouring, sheeting, bucketing, or raining cats and dogs, which is a less well-known idiom. Overall, there are many different phrases that can be used to effectively convey the same meanings.

Synonyms for Cats and dogs:

What are the hypernyms for Cats and dogs?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Famous quotes with Cats and dogs

  • We continue to live in ignorance concerning the harm we inflict on animals; very few of us have ever visited an industrial breeding site or a slaughterhouse. We maintain a kind of moral schizophrenia that has us lavishing pampering our pets and at the same time planting our forks in the pigs that have been sent to the slaughter by the millions, even though they are in no way less conscious, less sensitive to pain, or less intelligent than our cats and dogs.
    Matthieu Ricard
  • I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs.
    Jonathan Swift
  • I endorse all that you say of the superior intelligence of the felidae. Never have I been able to associate the docile servility and satellitism of the canidae with mental power. Zoölogists seem to consider the cerebration of cats and dogs about 50-50—but my respect always goes to the cool, sure, impersonal, delicately poised feline who minds his business and never slobbers—the aristocratic, epicurean philosopher who knows what he wants and tells interlopers to go to hell. There is no credit in having a dog attached to one—for a dog can be conditioned to become anybody's slave and property. But a cat is nobody's slave. You do not a cat. If one lives in your home, it is because he regards your way of life favourably, and accepts you as a friend, as one gentleman accepts another. He takes no kicks or insolence from anyone. If you are not worthy to associate with him, he will depart to seek an environment more suited to a gentleman's taste. Therefore he who retains the respect and companionship of a feline has proven himself to be essentially a superior citizen. For a human being, membership in the Kappa Alpha Tau forms a badge of distinction. Many are the eminent names on that member ship list—Mahomet himself, Richelieu, Poe, Baudelaire. . . one could catalogue them endlessly. Certainly, I ask no greater honour than to be accounted a citizen of Ulthar beyond the River Skai!
    H. P. Lovecraft

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