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A time of need or trouble, as in We knew a rainy day would come sooner or later . This idiom is often used in the context of save for a rainy day , which means to put something aside for a future time of need. [Late 1500s]Advertisement
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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