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Welcome to the A to 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 three idioms,
social. What is what's our first one? Our first idiom is
it's raining cats and dogs. Oh yeah, sure. What does that mean, Jack?
Well, it means that cats and dogs are just falling from the sky for some reason.
No, what it means is that it's raining very, very hard
out there outside. So it's kind of an old idiom
because I can just picture like my grandfather or my dad saying it.
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, it's one of the dumbest like idioms
like we have, but it's all common. Like people use it still all the time.
Yeah, 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 rains really hard, you, I don't know
what the etymology is, which means like the origin. I've made it with origin is.
I think it's just like the slamming sound maybe of rain. It's like a cat fell from your
roof or something on or I don't know. So I mean, we could just any two nouns could be like
it's raining bowling balls and toaster ovens, you know, like it makes as much sense as,
you know, cats and dogs. So yeah, but for some reason we we chose cats and dogs.
Yeah, we chose cats and dogs. We have to live with it.
Yeah, it pouring is pouring. So, uh, which brings us to our next ADM when it rains, it pours.
Jack, what does that mean? Oh, this one, 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'll,
you'll go like weeks without anything and then all of a sudden you have 20 things that you have
to do, you know, it's like it just kind of, you know, yeah, it just like when it rains, it pours
it a lot of rain comes, you know, but when there's nothing, nothing is happening. So,
when it rains, it pours or what's the other one, it can also mean when something bad happens,
that a lot of bad things happen. Like let's say, oh, you know, I was, I was doing fine,
life's been fine. And then I broke my thumb and then my mom broke her leg and then we owe
hospital bills and now the hospital is all out of our pain medication and then my dad got in a
car crash on his way to pick us up. It's a lot of bad things. It's kind of how it is. It's like,
I don't know if you've ever noticed it. It's like one bad thing happens and then a bunch of bad
thing happen. Yeah, it's like, it's like, you know, a guy sitting at home and his girlfriend
just broke up with him and then he's like, oh, checks his email. He got fired from his job.
And he gets a phone call, his grandmother passed away, you know, or something. It's just like one
after the other after the other. It's like when it rains, it pours. Yeah. Yeah.
It pours. Yeah. And then the other one is take a rain check. Jack, this one has only fascinated me
because I don't think I understood what this meant until I was like a teenager. So I think I may
still not know. I mean, I know what it means, but I'm not sure like what.
Because if it's raining, well, tell them what it means and I'll then I'll give you my idea
about that emoji. Yeah. So let's say, for example, let's say you said to me like, hey, Jack, let's
let's grab lunch on Tuesday. And I'm like, oh, I have a meeting on Tuesday. So can I take a rain check?
And a rain check just means can we can we change the date to a future time, but an unknown future time?
So we will have lunch together. It's just we don't know when it's going to happen in the future.
So we have to make a plan. Yeah. Just means yeah, let's leave it for the future at some point.
Yeah. It's kind of like it's kind of like saying it's kind of different than saying no.
You know, I'm busy because it's kind of like saying later or something. Yeah. Well, it's like it's
nice. It's like a nice way to say like I want to spend time with you. I want to do this. I just
can't do it at that time that you said, you know. And so it's nicer than maybe later. Like maybe later,
it's like no, later for sure. Later for sure, you want to do this. But
yeah, maybe later is what we call blowing someone off basically. Yeah. Yeah. So it's not maybe later.
It's like a later for sure. I do want to hang out with you. I just can't unfortunately at that time.
So yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So it's a nice way to say to say that. And yeah. All right. Students,
if you have any more questions about these idioms or any more idioms, make sure to leave us a comment
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and hear you guys using these idioms. I think it would be really fun. And of course, if you're
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