something for a rainy day

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This was insurance, something for a rainy day.

From Time Magazine Archive

Here, by pulling all together, there is almost a certainty of our earning more than a bare living, and of laying up something for a rainy day.

From Driven Back to Eden by Roe, Edward Payson

To lay up something for a rainy day; to   provide against a time of necessity or distress.

From 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Grose, Francis

Some of the older plantations paid dividends of 150 per cent, last year, and probably set aside something for a rainy day in addition.

From Where Half The World Is Waking Up The Old and the New in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, Reported With Especial Reference to American Conditions by Poe, Clarence Hamilton

Was it that the Irish climate used its influence over him; for in his practice to "put by something for a rainy day," his savings had many promptings?

From Barrington Volume I (of II) by Lever, Charles James