Weather sayings
What does “save for a rainy day” mean?
Keep something back for when times get hard. Usually money, sometimes biscuits.
“That bonus is going in the rainy day pot.”
Get roasted by your own forecastFree, no account, and you pick how rude I get.
Where it comes from
“A rainy day” has stood for hard times in English for centuries. The usual explanation is that rain once meant no outdoor work.
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What I think of “save for a rainy day”
Saving for a rainy day assumes there will be just the one.
A rainy day fund is the only fund I fully believe in.
Rainy days are not rare enough to save for. They are a subscription.
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Sources: Common English usage.