Yes, Wendy: we use the phrase "raining like cats and dogs." I'm suprised that the animal activists haven't protested using it as suggesting cruelty to animals. Now, in the good old days in Egypt, it rained frogs. I wonder if they used that phrase: "Gadzooks, Lord, it raineth like unto frogs today!"

Speaking of old phrases, I found myself using "usen't" in something I was writing, yesterday. That must be my Dad channeling through me. "Usen't" was a contraction of used not, as in used not to be.
"Dasn't" was another word he used, which I suspect came from my Grandma Rasmussen. It sounds like a word she'd use all the time, because she was always telling people what they should do. "You dasn't do that. That must be a contraction of dast not. Who says dast, anymore? Sounds absolutely Shakespearean.

I bet Rapaire can clarify all this stuff for us.

Jerry