英语词汇“for a rainy day”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

2. figurative. A possible future time of hardship or relative poverty. Frequently in for (also against) a rainy day.

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the world > action or operation > adversity > [noun] > time of > a time of need

rainy dayc1580

time of need1596

c1580 tr. Bugbears iii. ii, in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1897) 99 23 Wold he haue me kepe nothyng agaynst a raynye day?

1677 A. Yarranton England's Improvem. 115 In the Time of Plenty, they lay up for a Rainy-day.

1702 True Picture Anc. Tory 30 We, who had husbanded our Money, and had lain up for a Rainy-day.

a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. ii. 402 It behoves us to provide against a rainy day while the Sun shines.

1778 J. Wedgwood Let. 19 Mar. in Sel. Lett. (1965) 219 I do not at present feel for our own situation, as I may do the next rainy day.

1807 W. Windham Speeches Parl. (1812) III. 19 Laying something by for a rainy day.

1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. viii. vi. 365 The massive silver did prove a hoard available, in after times, against a rainy day.

1873 L. M. Alcott Work vi. 128 The rest of the money burned in her pocket, but she prudently put it by for a rainy day.

1923 P. G. Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves ix. 94 The policeman, having retrieved a piece of chewing-gum from the underside of a chair, where he had parked it against a rainy day, went off into a corner.

1979 R. Rendell Make Death Love Me iii. 30 How about the ten thousand he got for selling his own house? That, said Pam, was for a rainy day.

2003 Business Rev. Weekly 20 Nov. 30/1 An ageing Australia will mean a skint Federal Government, so any windfall surplus now should be trousered—saved for the rainy day we expect ahead.

单词	for a rainy day
释义	> as lemmas for (also against) a rainy day 2. figurative. A possible future time of hardship or relative poverty. Frequently in for (also against) a rainy day. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > adversity > [noun] > time of > a time of need rainy dayc1580 time of need1596 c1580 tr. Bugbears iii. ii, in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1897) 99 23 Wold he haue me kepe nothyng agaynst a raynye day? 1677 A. Yarranton England's Improvem. 115 In the Time of Plenty, they lay up for a Rainy-day. 1702 True Picture Anc. Tory 30 We, who had husbanded our Money, and had lain up for a Rainy-day. a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. ii. 402 It behoves us to provide against a rainy day while the Sun shines. 1778 J. Wedgwood Let. 19 Mar. in Sel. Lett. (1965) 219 I do not at present feel for our own situation, as I may do the next rainy day. 1807 W. Windham Speeches Parl. (1812) III. 19 Laying something by for a rainy day. 1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. viii. vi. 365 The massive silver did prove a hoard available, in after times, against a rainy day. 1873 L. M. Alcott Work vi. 128 The rest of the money burned in her pocket, but she prudently put it by for a rainy day. 1923 P. G. Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves ix. 94 The policeman, having retrieved a piece of chewing-gum from the underside of a chair, where he had parked it against a rainy day, went off into a corner. 1979 R. Rendell Make Death Love Me iii. 30 How about the ten thousand he got for selling his own house? That, said Pam, was for a rainy day. 2003 Business Rev. Weekly 20 Nov. 30/1 An ageing Australia will mean a skint Federal Government, so any windfall surplus now should be trousered—saved for the rainy day we expect ahead. extracted from rainy dayn. < as lemmas
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