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Idioms and Phrases

Force the cancellation or postponement of some event owing to bad weather. For example, Our picnic was rained out, but we hope to have it next week . [1920s]
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Example Sentences

Blood dropped like rain out of heaven, while jackals howled impatiently, and kites and vultures screamed hungrily for human flesh.

It had a tight tin roof and a cement-pipe chimney with a cap to keep the rain out.

"The boot comes up so high that it keeps the rain out, except from my face," said Mr. Gray.

One is like a man in a prison cell watching the rain out of the window; it is all the same to him.

My lads, said Hildebrand, handing them the flask, here is that will keep this pelting rain out of your jackets.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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