rainy day, a

Idioms  

1. A time of need or trouble, as in We knew a rainy day would come sooner or later. This idiom is often used in the context of save for a rainy day, which means to put something aside for a future time of need. [Late 1500s]

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rainy day, a

Once, on a rainy day, a rock slipped off a truck bed in front of him, sending his motorcycle toppling.

From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2021

Amy Jackson, an early-education instructor at the Center School in Greenfield, Mass., remembers one rainy day a few years ago when she was outside with her students.

From New York Times ● Sep. 6, 2020

A full movie on a rainy day, a couple of half-hour TV shows before pickup?

From Slate ● Jun. 7, 2019

Surely you wonder how you could ever complain again—about a rainy day, a broken piece of china, or someone's unkind words.

From US News ● Aug. 9, 2011

Myself intensely ignorant of anatomy, and even more so of the punctilio, I yet attempted, one rainy day, a roster of the bodily parts in the order of their respectability.

From A Book of Burlesques by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken