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rainy day

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rainy day
n.
A time of need or trouble.
rainy day
Noun
a future time of need, esp. financial need
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.rainy dayrainy day - a (future) time of financial need; "I am saving for a rainy day"
figure of speech, trope, image, figure - language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
period, period of time, time period - an amount of time; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period"


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NOT long after Grandfather had told the story of his great chair, there chanced to be a rainy day.
Grandfather's Chair by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
When the old man died some years after I stepped into his place, and now of course I have top wages, and can lay by for a rainy day or a sunny day, as it may happen, and Nelly is as happy as a bird.
Black Beauty by Sewell, Anna View in context
Find out some respectable woman with a little property--somebody in the landlady way, or lodging-letting way--and marry her, against a rainy day.
A Tale Of Two Cities by Dickens, Charles View in context
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