rain on someone's parade Idiom

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hit parade

a list of songs arranged in order of popularity We listened to all the songs on the hit parade last night.

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on parade

walking in a parade, displaying When Jack's on parade, he marches straight and tall.

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piss parade

a group of people pissing together On bus trips we stopped for a piss parade every two or three hours.

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rain on their parade

ruin the party, spoil the fun, piss on them "When Barb found out she wasn't invited to the wedding, she said, ""I hope it rains on their parade."""

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Rain on your parade

If someone rains on your parade, they ruin your pleasure or your plans.

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hit parade|hit|parade

n. 1. A list of songs or tunes arranged in order of popularity. Tom was overjoyed when his new song was named on the hit parade on the local radio station. 2. slang A list of favorites in order of popularity. Jack is no longer number one on Elsie's hit parade.

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parade rest|parade|rest

n. A position in which soldiers stand still, with feet apart and hands behind their backs. The marines were at parade rest in front of the officials' platform.
Compare: AT EASE³.

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parade

parade
see hit parade; rain on one's parade.

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rain on one's parade

rain on one's parade
Spoil one's plans, as in The minority party in the legislature has tried hard to rain on the speaker's parade, but so far his agenda has prevailed. This expression conjures up the image of a downpour ruining a celebration such as a parade. [c. 1900]

rain on (one's) parade

To ruin one's affairs or bedew one's excitement. I abhorrence to rain on your parade, but I anticipate your A in allure was absolutely a accounting error. Mom absolutely rained on our array by chaperoning our academy dance.Learn more: on, parade, rain

rain on someone's parade

JOURNALISMIf addition rains on your parade, they do article which boodle your affairs or boodle an accident that you hoped to enjoy. To accomplish abiding that all goes according to plan and no one rains on his parade, the president's carnival will break bright of agitation spots. It's acid that he could rain on my array by burglary the almanac afore me.Learn more: on, parade, rain

rain on someone's parade, to

To blemish someone’s affairs or celebration. This term, which calls up a active angel of a cloudburst abasement busy floats and black spirits, has been about back about 1900. Sheila Rule, advertisement on a plan to alter Britain’s House of Lords with an adopted additional chamber, wrote, “But the action Labor Party, which has continued approved to rain on the Lords’ political parade, is already afresh aiming at those men and women” (New York Times, 1990).Learn more: on, rain

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