take a rain check
to do something later
TRANSLATION
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STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
Global handset sales TAKE A RAIN CHECK in third quarter 2008
(www.eetimes.com)
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Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime said this morning consumers who go to GameStop on Dec. 20 or 21 can TAKE A RAIN CHECK that will guarantee them a Wii in January.
(The San Francisco Chronicle)
(www.eetimes.com)
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Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime said this morning consumers who go to GameStop on Dec. 20 or 21 can TAKE A RAIN CHECK that will guarantee them a Wii in January.
(The San Francisco Chronicle)
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take a rain check
idiom
- something that you say when you cannot accept someone's invitation to do something but you would like to do it another time
(Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms)
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WORD ORIGIN
A rain check is a promise that an unaccepted offer will be renewed in the future, as in "I can't come to dinner Tuesday but hope you'll give me a rain check." It is a polite way of putting something off or declining an offer.
The expression comes from baseball in the United States, where in the 1880s it became the practice to offer paying spectators a rain check entitling them to future admission for a game that was postponed or ended early owing to bad weather.
By the early 1900s the term was transferred to tickets for other kinds of entertainment, and later to a coupon entitling a customer to buy, at a later date and at the same price, a sale item temporarily out of stock. The phrase "no rain checks" is sometimes used if an advertised good is out of stock and the store has to order it. The customer then pays the full price instead of the advertised special price.
(sources: American Heritage Dictionary, Investopedia)
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SMUGGLE OWAD INTO TODAY'S CONVERSATION:
"Thanks for the dinner invitation, but I have other plans. Can I take a rain check?"
idiom
- something that you say when you cannot accept someone's invitation to do something but you would like to do it another time
(Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms)
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WORD ORIGIN
A rain check is a promise that an unaccepted offer will be renewed in the future, as in "I can't come to dinner Tuesday but hope you'll give me a rain check." It is a polite way of putting something off or declining an offer.
The expression comes from baseball in the United States, where in the 1880s it became the practice to offer paying spectators a rain check entitling them to future admission for a game that was postponed or ended early owing to bad weather.
By the early 1900s the term was transferred to tickets for other kinds of entertainment, and later to a coupon entitling a customer to buy, at a later date and at the same price, a sale item temporarily out of stock. The phrase "no rain checks" is sometimes used if an advertised good is out of stock and the store has to order it. The customer then pays the full price instead of the advertised special price.
(sources: American Heritage Dictionary, Investopedia)
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SMUGGLE OWAD INTO TODAY'S CONVERSATION:
"Thanks for the dinner invitation, but I have other plans. Can I take a rain check?"
