Meaning of rainy day | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A difficult period of need, in reference to a time when money will be needed.
   idiomatic
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rainy, day.

Equivalents

Examples

“I've kept some money in the bank for a rainy day.”

“Rainy days and Mondays always get me down.”

“Sometimes on a rainy day I sit around and weed the losers out of my address book.”

“My rainy-day tour in April during the first lockdown was, in fact, a homage to Sir John Betjeman - the poet and railway campaigner whose statue can be found on the upper concourse of St Pancras station.”

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