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Re: Why do circuit breakers go up for on and down for off?

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by: NY - Wed, 15 Feb 2023 14:55 UTC

On 15/02/2023 10:12, Dan Purgert wrote:
> ["Followup-To:" header set to sci.electronics.design.]
> On 2023-02-14, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>> [...]
>> For instance, the book I started learning English taught the expression
>> "it is raining cats and dogs". Most of the times I tried to use it,
>> nobody understood it and I had to explain :-D
>
> That's a very common idiom in American English (uh, well, at least
> around here anyway). Where were you trying to use the phrase?

A few years ago I bought a weather station. I was amused to see a
message on the console, alongside the numerical rain rate, during heavy
rain: "It's raining cats and dogs" - someone with a sense of humour.

I would have said that it was a fairly standard idiom in British
English, and I've have guessed also in American and Australian English.

There are three kinds of people: men, women, and unix.

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