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rainy day

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rainy day (plural rainy days)

  1. (idiomatic) A difficult period of need, in reference to a time when money will be needed.
    I've kept some money in the bank for a rainy day.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rainy,‎ day.
    Rainy days and Mondays always get me down.
    • 1997, George Carlin, Brain Droppings[1], New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, 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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