Jane, an American student, tells her Brazilian friend Lucia that it is "raining cats and dogs". Lucia is confused when she looks outside to see only rain falling from the sky. This is an example of a breakdown of which type of communication code?

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This is an example of a breakdown in understanding idioms, which are phrases that don't mean what they literally say but have a culturally understood meaning. "Raining cats and dogs" is an idiom that means it's raining very heavily.

Jane, an American Student, Tells Her Brazilian Friend Lucia That