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[mirrorshard]

Now that's a grand big storm out there. The Welsh idiom is bwrw hen wragydd a ffyn - raining old women and sticks.

Comments

[arkady.livejournal.com]

Well, of course it is - you'd be knocked off your broomstick by the hail out there; it's no weather for flying! ;-)

[mirrorshard.livejournal.com]

What fun it would be, though...

[arkady.livejournal.com]

Oh, absolutely! Sadly it is also on The List. ;-)

[mirrorshard.livejournal.com]

Now, why does this not even remotely surprise me?

[marydell.livejournal.com]

That's a great idiom. Matches the sounds of a storm better than "cats & dogs," too.

[mirrorshard.livejournal.com]

I'd never really thought about "raining cats and dogs" before, but I think it's from the French - and "des chats et des chiens" is ridiculously onomatopoeic for steady rain. Not storms, though, indeed.