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    What does “take a rain check” mean?

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    To turn something down for now with the idea of doing it another time.

    “Drinks tonight? Can I take a rain check?”

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    Where it comes from

    Baseball. Clubs handed out tickets for games cancelled by rain at least as early as 1870, and the term “rain check” is on record from 1877. The everyday “let’s take a rain check” came later.

    What I think of “take a rain check”

    • A rain check is the most polite no in the English language, and it is a weather word.
    • Taking a rain check when it is not even raining. Bold.
    • Rain checks are like umbrellas: everyone has one, nobody ever uses it.

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    Sources: Wikipedia, “Rain check (baseball)”, citing the New Orleans Times (1870) and the Chicago Times (1877).

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