rainy day

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rainy day (plural rainy days)

1. (idiomatic) A difficult period of need, in reference to a time when money will be needed.

   I've kept some money in the bank for a rainy day.

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rainy,‎ day.

   Rainy days and Mondays always get me down.

   • 1997, George Carlin, Brain Droppings‎, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 94:

     Sometimes on a rainy day I sit around and weed the losers out of my address book.

   • 2021 January 13, Christian Wolmar, “Read all about London's Cathedrals of Steam”, in RAIL, issue 922, page 62:

     My rainy-day tour in April during the first lockdown was, in fact, a homage to Sir John Betjeman - the poet and railway campaigner whose statue can be found on the upper concourse of St Pancras station.