Question

Rain Check a ticket stub allowing attendance at a future event in place of one that was canceled; a piece of paper from a store for buying a sold-out item at the sale price at a later date

Accepted Answer

The store had run out of the guitars that were on sale, so they gave us a rain check. Rain checks were first issued at baseball games in the 1800s, and that's when this phrase became popular. If the game was rained out, you took your rain check ticket and used it to get a ticket for a future game at no extra cost.

Idiom	Rain Check
Example	The store had run out of the guitars that were on sale, so they gave us a rain check.
Meaning	a ticket stub allowing attendance at a future event in place of one that was canceled; a piece of paper from a store for buying a sold-out item at the sale price at a later date
Origin	Rain checks were first issued at baseball games in the 1800s, and that's when this phrase became popular. If the game was rained out, you took your rain check ticket and used it to get a ticket for a future game at no extra cost.

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