2012年5月15日火曜日

Rain check

Hello, everyone at TCFL basic course.
Today we have rainy day. I knew it thanks to the weather forecast earlier.

By the way, I need to talk about the topic 'rain check' , we studied yesterday.
We had the dialogue on step 2 below;


Doug : Do you want a ride?
It's a Harley.
Sachs : May be....some other time.
Doug : You can have a rain check.

Doug invited Sachi to ride his Harley on a date.
But she didn't accept at once and postponed it later.
Then Doug gave her a rain check for the other chance.
It means Sachi has still a ticket to ride the Harley if she wants.
Here is the definition and origin for the rain check from the dictionary.
I'm very happy to know it and share it with you....thanks.


The meaning of 'rain check'

1. a ticket for future use given to spectators at an outdoor event, as a baseball game or concert, that has been postponed or interrupted by rain.

2. an offered or requested postponement of an invitation until a more convenient, usually unspecified time: Since you can't join us for dinner, we'll give you a rain check.

3. a ticket, coupon, or the like, entitling a customer to purchase at a later date and for the same amount a sale item that is temporarily out of stock.
[web dictionary]

2 件のコメント:

  1. That's an interesting words. I wonder that we also have the interesting words like this in Japanese.

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    1. I can tell one joke....
      Here you are coffe o mae.
      Isn't it coffee with milk?
      Yup....it's special milk o mae not ore.

      Can you get it?

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