Question

From the given options, choose the correct meaning of the idiom highlighted in the sentence.
When we were returning from the office, it was raining cats and dogs.

Raining smoothly
Raining when cats and dogs were fighting
Raining heavily
Drizzle

Answer 1

raining heavily is the meaning of this idiom

Answer 2

The correct meaning of the highlighted idiom is Raining heavily.

• The specific words or unintended phrases to be typically taken literally are familiar idioms.  
• They in common are a considered sentence or key phrase that substantially possesses a figurative, non-literal meaning attached to the phrase.
• A mighty storm with the wind (dogs) and intense rain (cats) can properly apply to rain cats and dogs. It rains exceptionally or unbelievably hard if it rains cats and dogs.