Gramer girl here. I'm Minyan Fogarty. This week we have idioms about rain in a

meeting middle about the difference between the words because due to since and as.

Let's talk about rain. The past few weeks we've been hearing about the epic

rains that have hit Texas and Louisiana. It's been devastating. More than 27 trillion

gallons of rain were dumped on the region in just six days. Well at the same time

on the other side of the world people were dying from floods in India, Nepal and

Bangladesh and now we're watching Hurricane Irma wreak havoc. Although it's a

small matter compared to the actual flooding hearing all the news got us

thinking about the role that rain plays in our language. For example we talk

about scheduling events rain or shine meaning we'll hold them no matter what

the weather. On the other hand we talk about events being rained out canceled

because of weather. We have rain boots more poetically known as galoshes gum

boots are Wellington's and we have rain coats also called slickers and

salwester's. We also use several idioms related to rain here are a few that

you'll recognize. First there's the expression to save for a rainy day. This phrase

means to save money while you can as protection against some future time when

you can't. The rainy day in this expression refers to a time of trouble or

scarcity. This phrase can be traced all the way back to 1580 when it was used in a

comic play called the bugabairs in the line would he have me keep nothing

against a rainy day. Rain also takes a negative cast in the expression to rain on

someone's parade. This phrase means to spoil someone's plans. Imagine you were

planning on spending the weekend at the beach but your boss tells you at the last

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