It’s raining pretty hard right now, and the weather reminded me of something I heard one evening on a radio talk show. It was raining then, too, and the discussion was about the weather.
This guy called in who sounded a little drunk and rather stupid, and said that where he was, it was “Raining like a big dog”. That was just about the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard anyone say on the radio. Raining like a big dog. What in hell do dogs of any size have to do with how much it rains?
There’s an expression, “raining cats and dogs”, meaning a real downpour, but how does it rain like a dog? Or a camel? Could it rain like a big camel?