April showers bring May flowers
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If April showers bring May flowers, there may be a lack of both this year.
From Washington Post • Apr. 14, 2023
April showers bring May flowers and wow, the PNW is bursting with color like no other right now.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 28, 2021
If April showers bring May flowers, then June showers must bring a much-needed reprieve from the humidity.
From New York Times • Jun. 20, 2017
You probably know that April showers bring May flowers, but you might not know that both March and April are known as “month-brothers,” being the rowdier, stormier siblings to lovely May, known as a “month-sister.”
From Time • Mar. 20, 2014
“You’ll see. Lucky for us it’s springtime. April showers bring May flowers, as the proverb goes. There’ll be no shortage of stratocumuli and nimbostrati to hide behind.”
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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