raining cats and dogs

to be raining in great amounts It was raining cats and dogs by the time I got home.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Kjetil	-	Norwegian
Akilina	-	Russian
Wigheard	-	Anglo-Saxon
Kerstin	SHESH-tin (Swedish), KER-stin (German)	Swedish, German
Dallas	DAL-əs	English
KornÉL	KOR-nayl	Hungarian