Re: 'together vs. to gather'

Staving Costentin Cornomorus:
>--- Philippe Caquant <herodote92@...>
>wrote:
> > ? I thought the English said "it's raining cats
> > and dogs ?"
>
>That's one o them mettyfors.
>
>It means "it's raining alot". Actual cats and
>dogs have nothing to do with it [...apart from
>that curious incident over Pycleas in 1749...]
>
>Padraic.
In the olden days, when anything you wanted to get rid of was simply thrown
out into the street, and the only thing that ever cleaned the streets was
really heavy rain, a major downpour would be accompanied by tides of
assorted rubbish (prominently including dead animals) being swept downstream.

Gardy loo!

Pete

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