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Ed Эдвард エド

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2021.03.18 12:57

Apparently lots of people learn the phrase "it's raining cats

and dogs" from English textbooks. If you say this, English speakers will understand what you mean, but they never really say it themselves - it sounds quite weird.

I'm not sure why this is taught so often - something like "it's chucking it down" is better - it's quite a common, informal way of saying it's raining heavily in the UK (I'm not sure about the US)
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  • Akane 2021.03.18 13:00

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    Really 😳😳
  • Ms Active Couch Potato 2021.03.18 13:01

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    Running horses?
  • Ilnaz Nurgaliev 2021.03.18 13:04

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    It's exactly because it is an informal way. In Russia, for example, more elderly teachers are obsessed with teaching languages the exact way they are written in books. You might even say that they teach the way they had been taught themselves in soviet times 🤔
  • Saya 2021.03.18 13:06

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    I've studied the phrase as well 🤔😥💦
  • I_am_Italiano 2021.03.18 13:20

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    I also say “it’s pouring down rain”
  • Ekaterina 2021.03.18 13:28

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    Not a single modern textbook gives the phrase.
  • La_tristitude 2021.03.18 15:37

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    @Ilnaz Nurgaliev о да, наученные по книжкам, в авторство которых не входят носители, никогда толком не болтавшие с живыми людьми...
  • piaoliang 2021.03.18 17:15

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    never heard of it actually ahah
  • Simona 2021.03.18 18:51

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    The "saddest" thing is that I used to say this particular idiom to my partner who is a native English speaker and he has never corrected me hahah poor me
  • Giovanni 2021.03.19 20:18

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    And "havens have open ed!?"...I don't know if it's right!😊

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