Sweating cats and dogs
Posted: May 30, 2025 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: cats and dogs, expressions, humor, language, malaphors, mixed idioms, words Leave a commentOn the You Tube show, Our Abandoned Home Renovation: A Year Later, a husband and wife are renovating a house and the wife comments on the amount of sweat. It’s at the 18:30 mark:
This is a mashup of “raining cats and dogs” (raining hard and a lot) and “sweating buckets” (sweating profusely). Both idioms describe intensity and copious amounts of something. A big shout out to Verbatim for spotting this one and sending it in.
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