like cats and dogs
Pouring very heavily
To fight or argue like cats and dogs is to quarrel frequently and intensely: My brothers fought like cats and dogs growing up.
The phrase captures the stereotypical mutual hostility between the two animals.
Separately, to rain cats and dogs means to rain very heavily.
- at oddsIn a state of conflict
- oil and waterProverbial unmixable substances
- bickeringPetty verbal sparring
- clashViolent disagreement or collision
- quarrelAngry verbal dispute
at each other's throats · rivalry · animosity · bad blood · feud · rain · heavy rain · pouring down · raining buckets · friction · hostility · disagreement · thunder · loggerheads · discord · lightning · wrangling · confrontation
- incompatibilityoil and water, chalk and cheese, apples and oranges, mismatch, clash
like cats and dogsdrizzle
Very light precipitation
sprinkle · light rain · mist · spitting · spotting
like cats and dogslike two peas in a pod
Extremely alike pair
thick as thieves · hand in glove · inseparable · peacefully · amicably
like, cats, dogs, liked, liking, likes, likeable, catlike, doglike