In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Xochitl and Jack discuss three idioms related to rain. Transcript: 00:00:00 Jack Hey, A is the English podcast listeners. It's Jack here and we just want to announce that we are now on WeChat. Our WeChat ID is A-Z English podcast that is A-Z English podcast, one word all lowercase. 00:00:17 Jack And if you. 00:00:18 Jack Join the group. You will be able to talk with me. You'll be able to. 00:00:22 Jack Talk with social. 00:00:23 Jack And we can answer your questions. We can read your comments on the podcast. So we'd love for you to join us and be active in our we chat group. Our WeChat ID is A-Z English podcast. Thanks. See you on the app. 00:00:51 Jack Welcome to the A-Z English podcast. My name is Jack and I'm here with my co-host social. And today we are in the Idiom Academy and we have 3 idioms social what is what's our first one? 00:01:01 Xochitl Our first idiom is it's raining cats and dogs. 00:01:06 Jack Oh yeah, sure. 00:01:08 Xochitl What does that mean, Jack? 00:01:10 Jack Well, it means that uh, cats and dogs are are just falling from the sky for some reason. No, what it means is that it's raining very, very hard out there outside. 00:01:24 Jack So we, you know it's it's it's kind of an old idiom cause I can just picture like my grandfather or my dad saying, you know, like we're going outside to go in the car and it's oh, it's raining cats and dogs out there, you know. So we. 00:01:32 Xochitl Yeah. 00:01:39 Jack It's it's, it's. 00:01:40 Jack One of the the dumbest like idiots like we have. 00:01:45 Jack But it's so. 00:01:45 Xochitl Yes, weird. 00:01:46 Jack Common like people use it still all the. 00:01:50 Xochitl Yeah, it's kind of not like it's a very nonsensical one. Like why? I don't know if it's just because, like, when it rained really hard you. I don't know what the etymology is, which means like the origin. I really like origin is I think it's just like the slamming sound, maybe of rain. It's like a cat. 00:02:09 Xochitl Fell from your roof or something on? I don't know, so. 00:02:13 Xochitl I'm not sure it's not. 00:02:13 Jack I mean it it it, yeah. 00:02:14 Jack You could just any two nouns could be like it's raining bowl bowling balls and toaster ovens. You know, like it it could be it. It makes as much sense as, you know, cats and dogs so. 00:02:22 Xochitl Right, yes. 00:02:27 Xochitl Yeah, but for some reason we we chose cats and dogs. So like this thing. 00:02:27 발표자 3 Yeah. 00:02:31 Jack Yeah, we chose cats and dogs. We have to live. 00:02:33 Jack With it, yeah. 00:02:34 Xochitl It's pouring. It's pouring. So which brings us to our next idiom. When it rains, it pours. Jack what? 00:02:36 Jack Yeah. 00:02:42 Xochitl That means only rain. 00:02:43 Jack Ohh this one I I like this one because like it's like when you when you get a little bit busy you get really busy. You know it seems like like you you you'll you'll go like weeks without any anything and then all of a sudden you have 20 things that you have to do. You know it's like. 00:03:01 Jack It just kind of, you know? Yeah, it's just like when it rains, it pours it a lot of rain comes, you know. But when there's nothing that nothing is happening. 00:03:08 Xochitl Right. 00:03:11 Xochitl When it rains, it pours. Or what's the other one? It can also mean when something bad. 00:03:17 Xochitl Happens that a lot of bad things happen, like let's say ohh you know I was. I was doing fine. Let's let's been fine. And then I broke my thumb and then my mom broke her leg and then we owe hospital bills and now? 00:03:38 Xochitl The hospital or out of our pain medication. 00:03:40 Xochitl Then and then my dad got in a car crash on his way. 00:03:44 Xochitl To. 00:03:44 Xochitl Pick us up. It's not a bad thing. 00:03:45 Jack Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's just like, yeah, yeah. 00:03:49 Xochitl It's kind of how it is. It's like if I don't know if you ever noticed, it's like one bad thing happens and then a bunch of