noun
General Slang
rain check
· noun · retail
A voucher honouring the sale price when the promo item has sold out.
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A rain check is a slip the customer service desk hands out when an advertised sale item is out of stock — it locks in the promo price so you can come back later and pay it when the truck comes in. US grocery and drugstores codified it; some states actually require it by law. Borrowed from the original baseball usage.
“They were out of the $2.99 detergent so I grabbed a rain check at the desk — good for 30 days.”
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Wider everyday use: politely declining an invitation now while asking to take it up later. 'Take a rain check' = not tonight, but yes in principle.
“Can I take a rain check on dinner? I'm shattered, but next week for sure.”
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Original baseball sense: the stub a fan got when a game was called off for rain, redeemable at a later fixture. This is where the metaphor was born in the 1880s.
“Game got rained out in the fifth — ushers handed rain checks at the gate on the way out.”
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rain check In A Sentence
They were out of the $2.99 detergent so I grabbed a rain check at the desk — good for 30 days.
Can I take a rain check on dinner? I'm shattered, but next week for sure.
Game got rained out in the fifth — ushers handed rain checks at the gate on the way out.
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