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Definition of Rainy day
1. Noun. A (future) time of financial need. "I am saving for a rainy day"
Generic synonyms: Period, Period Of Time, Time Period
Definition of Rainy day
1. Noun. (&lit rainy day) ¹
2. Noun. (idiomatic) A difficult period of need, when things do not go right. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rainy Day
Literary usage of Rainy day
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1889)
"WHAT is a rainy-day bag? It is one of the most useful articles that I ever spent a
... But my rainy-day bag is small and is made to hold nothing more than a ..."
2. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"780 THE rainy day THE day is cold, and dark, and dreary; It rains, and the wind
is never weary; The vine still clings to the mouldering wall, ..."
3. McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey (1879)
"De-rlg'ion, the act of laughing at in contempt. In-eom-p&t'ib.le, that can not
exist together. LXXXIX. THE rainy day. B t 1. THE day is cold, and dark, ..."
4. The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1874)
"THE rainy day. THE day is cold, and dark, and dreary ; It rains, and the wind is
never weary ; The vine still clings to the mouldering wall. ..."
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