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make it rain

Verb CEFR C1

Definitions

  1. To bring prosperity or work to an enterprise by selling, inventing or other productive or successful activity.
  2. To throw a substantial amount of paper money so that it falls on a crowd, audience, performer, or group of performers, often as a way to show off one's wealth.
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see make, it, rain.

Examples

“It's time to make⟳ it rain⟳, my friend!”
“John has a propensity to make⟳ it rain⟳ at parties when he is drunk.”
“Get⟳ your mayo, sell⟳ that yayo, strip⟳ clubs make⟳ it rain⟳ / These thugs play⟳ the game, get⟳ bucks save⟳ that cane”
“I asked higher powers to make⟳ it rain⟳ to save⟳ our crops.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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