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Monday, March 2, 2015
Raining Cats and Dogs
While living in Macedonia as a Peace Corps Volunteer, I was teaching English to the director of the American Corner in Tetovo. We met five evenings a week and sometimes on Saturday. One day during our lesson, we were leafing through a book of idioms. I saw the one to describe a downpour. I explained that when it is raining heavily, we say, "It's raining cats and dogs." Gezim immediately laughed at that imagery. From then on, anytime I would arrive at the American Corner during a downpour, he would say, "It's raining cats and dogs!" Then we would both laugh.
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Hi, Melissa,
ReplyDeleteYour story about the imagery Gezim conjured up when envisioning "raining cats and dogs," and the humor of it all, made me think of my days as a FL student when I tried to learn the counterpart of this idiom in Spanish. I will share my recollections in a separate post. Thanks for the trip down memory lane! -Kay