raining cats and dogs

Once upon a time, Peter Pan met a lovely girl named Poppy. Poppy owned a pet store with her family, and Peter liked to play with all her cats and dogs. Tinkerbell, seeing how happy Peter and Poppy were, got jealous of their friendship and decided to play a prank on Poppy. One night, she snuck into the pet store, and put pixie dust on all the cats and dogs. They floated up, up, up, and when Poppy came in to the store, all her pets were high up in the sky above the pet store!

If she couldn't get them down, then no one would be able to adopt the cats or dogs. But then it started to rain. The rain washed away all the pixie dust, and the cats and dogs fell gently back to Earth. From then on, people came far and wide to adopt the magical, raining cats and dogs.

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to rain heavily; to downpour

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french

it's raining frogs / ill pleut des grenouilles

spanish

it's even raining husbands / Estan lloviendo hasta maridos

german

it's raining strings / Es regnet Bindfäden

italian

it's raining like from basins / piove a catinelle

arabic

Kab Min 'Ind el Rab / It's pouring from heaven

japanese

土砂降りである (doshaburi de aru) / earth and sand are falling