... Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night!
for me (if I can get it), midnight to noon - on & off of course, insomniac that I am!
National Sleep Foundation newsletter
...The old man...
(of "It's raining. It's pouring. The old man is snoring..." fame)
It IS raining, pouring, sheeting down, raining cats and dogs, falling in stair rods!!!
RSPCA versus Weather Abuse.
I've always been puzzled by 'raining cats and dogs,' but every language seems to have an illogical equivalent of this illogical idiom; French has 'it rains ropes,' whereas Spanish has the more sensible 'it's raining to the jugs' (which can mean 'it's raining plenty' or, to mistaken students, 'raining to breasts.'
WX Oddities
<drom, There are occasions when it has really rained fish, frogs and other assorted things. The explanation is usually something like a water spout which picks stuff up and deposites it later inland>
Wexford
(Have you ever seen this, Danon? Does it generally happen in places with unusual weather conditions?)
Julienne potatoes [frit francais]
Prous
(the dancer from the sixties)(sp)(g)
your chickens have come home to roost
