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Re: Frog strangler

Posted by ESC on May 13, 2007

In Reply to: Frog strangler posted by Terry Latschar on May 13, 2007

: Whenever it would rain torrentially, my dad would say "It's a real frog strangler". He said that saying is old and was rather obvious - heavy rain mildly flooding quickly was enough to drown a frog. Has anyone else heard of this saying?

I've heard "toad strangler."