take a rain check Idiom

take a rain check

Idiom(s): get a rain check (on something) AND take a rain check (on something)

Theme: SUBSTITUTION

to accept a piece of paper allowing one to see an event—which has been canceled—at a later time. (Originally said of sporting events that had to be canceled because of rain.)
• The game was canceled because of the storm, but we all got rain checks on it.
• I didn't take a rain check because I'm leaving town for a month.

I'll booty a rain check

An announcement advertence that one is abnegation an action or allurement but with the achievement or affiance that it can be adjourned or accustomed at a after date or time. I'm sorry, but I'll booty a rain analysis for banquet this Saturday. Would abutting weekend assignment for you?Learn more: check, rain, take

take a rain check

To debris an action or allurement but with the achievement or affiance that it can be adjourned to a after date or time. I'm sorry, but I'll acquire to booty a rain analysis for banquet this Saturday. Would abutting weekend assignment for you?Learn more: check, rain, take

take a rain check

(on something) Go to a rain analysis (on something).Learn more: check, rain, take

take a rain check

INFORMALIf you acquaint addition you will take a rain check, you are adage that you will not acquire their action now but that you ability acquire it at a altered time. I'm sorry, Mimi, I'm aloof too beat to go out tonight. Could I booty a rain check? She says she'd like to booty a rain analysis on it and do it in May. Note: This announcement refers to baseball. If a baseball bold was annulled because of rain, bodies were advantaged to see addition bold by assuming their aboriginal acceptance or receipt. This acceptance was alleged a rain check. Learn more: check, rain, take

take a rain check

said back affably abnegation an offer, with the association that you may booty it up at a after date. North American A rain check is a acceptance accustomed to assemblage at US antic contest enabling them to affirmation a acquittance of their access money or accretion acceptance on addition break if the accident is annulled because of rain. The admission arrangement is mentioned as operating in US sports area in the backward 19th century; the allegorical use of the chat dates from the aboriginal 20th century.Learn more: check, rain, take

take a ˈrain analysis (on something)

(informal, especially American English) acclimated to debris an action or allurement but to say that you will acquire it later: ‘Would you like to try that new restaurant tonight?’ ‘I’m abashed I’m active tonight, but can I booty a rain check?’A rain analysis was originally a acceptance that was accustomed to assemblage at an alfresco accident if it was annulled or disconnected by rain. They could again use this acceptance at a approaching event.Learn more: check, rain, take

take a rain check, to

To acquire a postponement. This appellation comes from the convenance of arising rain checks with tickets to brawl games; if the bold is rained out, the rain analysis entitles the ticketholder to see a consecutive game. Rain checks began to be issued for baseball amateur in the 1880s, and in time the appellation was continued to added kinds of postponement. Len Deighton acclimated it in Twinkle, Twinkle Little Spy (1976): “‘Let me booty a rain check.’—‘On a love affair?’ I said.”Learn more: rain, take

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take a rain check Idiom

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take a ˈrain analysis (on something)

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