something for a rainy day
Example Sentences
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This was insurance, something for a rainy day.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was constantly urging his servants to lay by something for a rainy day, or for their support in old age.
From Thrift by Samuel Smiles
Vast campaigns of education were undertaken, and the rich implored the poor to lay aside something for a rainy day.
From The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards by Henry Raleigh
His earnings would amount to three hundred and sixty dollars a year, and couldn't he and his mother live nicely on that and save something for a rainy day besides?
From The Boy Trapper by Harry Castlemon
"Lay by something for a rainy day," said a gentleman to an Irishman in his service.
From Architects of Fate or, Steps to Success and Power by Orison Swett Marden
