rain check
or raincheck
Origin of rain check
Words nearby rain check
How to use rain check in a sentence
The glitchy first night — power problems, a producer explained to disappointed guests, sent home with a rain check — was corrected by the following evening.
I appreciate your generosity in extending the invitation as a rain check to me.
On Handling the Data|M. I. MayfieldThey all had drinks, now, except the chief engineer, who wanted a rain-check on his.
Uller Uprising|Henry Beam Piper, John D. Clark and John F. Carr
British Dictionary definitions for rain check
Other Idioms and Phrases with rain check
A promise that an unaccepted offer will be renewed in the future, as in I can't come to dinner Tuesday but hope you'll give me a rain check. This term comes from baseball, where in the 1880s it became the practice to offer paying spectators a rain check entitling them to future admission for a game that was postponed or ended early owing to bad weather. By the early 1900s the term was transferred to tickets for other kinds of entertainment, and later to a coupon entitling a customer to buy, at a later date and at the same price, a sale item temporarily out of stock.