something for a rainy day

Example Sentences

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This was insurance, something for a rainy day.

From Time Magazine Archive

They live within their means, and lay by something for a rainy day.

From Thrift by Smiles, Samuel

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

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

"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 Marden, Orison Swett