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rainy day
noun
- a time of need or emergency:
saving money for a rainy day.
rainy day
noun
- a future time of need, esp financial
Other Words From
- rainy-day adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of rainy day1
Example Sentences
There were mats everywhere and it was like a big rainy-day sleepover with most of the cast.
Others are essentially pocketing the cash, stowing it in rainy-day funds or using it to cope with higher spending requirements.
I left the pottering Cather to put ship-shape his cabin (as he now called it) for himself––a rainy-day occupation for aliens.
Paul and I had waited for storms to pass over before, and made excellent rainy-day friends.
She must have sold a bond left to her by a friend some years ago, which she called her rainy-day legacy.
There also she placed the very considerable sum of money which she had just won at baccarat, to join the rainy-day fund.
The rainy day I paid out, I was never more miserable in my life than I was after two miles.
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