rainy day
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Noun
rainy day (plural rainy days)
- (idiomatic) A difficult period of need, when things do not go right.
- I've kept some money in the bank for a rainy day.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rainy, day.
- Rainy days and Mondays always get me down.
- 1997, Carlin, George, Brain Droppings, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, LCCN 96-52373, OCLC 36084460, OL 26335012M, page 94:
- Sometimes on a rainy day I sit around and weed the losers out of my address book.
- 2021 January 13, Christian Wolmar, “Read all about London's Cathedrals of Steam”, in RAIL, issue 922, page 62:
- 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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difficult period of need
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