Phrase guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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verb
To bring prosperity or work to an enterprise by selling, inventing or other productive or successful activity.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: idiomatic
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To throw a substantial amount of paper money so that it falls on a crowd, audience, performer, or group of performers, often as a way to show off one's wealth.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: idiomatic
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see make, it, rain.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Originates as a slang term for throwing out lots of cash to dancers in strip clubs, as if money is raining down on them. Draws from its roots in rainmaker (“a medicine man who seeks to induce rain; (figuratively) a person having the ability to generate business”).
