something for a rainy day

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This was insurance, something for a rainy day.

From Time Magazine Archive

Parochial affairs presented this extraordinary condition of things that for the industrious, thrifty man who was desirous of laying up something for a rainy day, there was no hope!

From Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King by Kingston, Alfred

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

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

He was constantly urging his servants to lay by something for a rainy day, or for their support in old age.

From Thrift by Smiles, Samuel