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Rainining cats and dogs is an example of what type of figurative language

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What figure of speech is raining cats and dogs? “It rained cats and dogs,” is not literal, but metaphorical. So while it could be called a metaphor, the saying is most accurately labelled an Idiom.

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The term "raining cats and dogs" is an idiom.

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