Synonyms for rainy day

Grammar : Noun

Définition of rainy day

noun possible time of need

Example sentences :

"They ain't got to makin' calendars yet with the rainy day marked on 'em," he would say.
Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson

Well,” he said, “how did Kristy get through the rainy day that spoiled her picnic?
Extract from : « Kristy's Rainy Day Picnic » by Olive Thorne Miller

But as all have big salaries, all prepare for the rainy day.
Extract from : « The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn, Volume 2 » by Elizabeth Bisland

If she could only put aside a few dollars every week for the rainy day sure to come.
Extract from : « Painted Veils » by James Huneker

I was taking advantage of the rainy day to arrange my trunks a bit.
Extract from : « Small Souls » by Louis Couperus

She had thought it very possible he would come in—had indeed all the rainy day been vaguely expecting him.
Extract from : « The Portrait of a Lady » by Henry James

She is full of exhortations to "lay by" for the rainy day, and seductive in her praises of the Penny Bank.
Extract from : « Stray Studies from England and Italy » by John Richard Greene

Tell this to the Duke; he knows how I managed to keep the hen till the rainy day was past.
Extract from : « Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6 » by John Gibson Lockhart

Catherine's story of the rainy day in Wuthering Heights was written by her in childhood on "a 'red-hot' Methodist's tract."
Extract from : « The Key to the Bront Works » by John Malham-Dembleby

They formed from necessity those habits of saving every thing which, with many, later resulted in an abundance for the rainy day.
Extract from : « History of Linn County Iowa » by Luther A. Brewer

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