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RAINY DAY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does rainy day mean?
• RAINY DAY (noun)
The noun RAINY DAY has 1 sense:
1. a (future) time of financial need
Familiarity information: RAINY DAY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A (future) time of financial need
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Context example:
I am saving for a rainy day
Hypernyms ("rainy day" is a kind of...):
period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)
Domain usage:
figure; figure of speech; image; trope (language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense)
Context examples
When I lost the rest, I thought it wise to say nothing about that sum, but to keep it secretly for a rainy day.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
As it was a rainy day, she went upstairs to amuse herself in one of the large chambers, and took Polly with her for company.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
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