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larkie1066 | 11:17 Fri 22nd Sep 2006 | Phrases & Sayings
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why do people say it's rainning COBS! what is a COB?
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Avatar Image SteveD
One of the meanings of the word "cob" is a bread roll.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cob

Presumably the expression "it's raining cobs" is suggesting that it's raining so hard that the raindrops seem to be the size of cobs.
11:45 Fri 22nd Sep 2006
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Cob is also a type of nut. The explanation would be similar to the bread roll one.
11:57 Fri 22nd Sep 2006
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No idea, but an old friend of mine used to say he was 'sweating cobs'.
12:28 Fri 22nd Sep 2006
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Probably nothing to do with it, but wasn't a cob also a type of horse?
15:51 Fri 22nd Sep 2006
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More likely it's from the Old English mud-and-straw brick known as a cob (probably from the same root as the cob loaf). Raining (or sweating) cobs would imply fairly heavy precipitation.
16:46 Fri 22nd Sep 2006

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