rain maker
High-value business getter
A rainmaker is someone who generates results, especially bringing in revenue or clients.
Law firms and consulting companies prize rainmakers—partners who attract lucrative business.
The term comes from people who claimed to induce rain through rituals or devices, a mix of folk tradition and frontier charlatanism.
She's the firm's top rainmaker, billing three million a year.
- shamanIndigenous spiritual healer
- droughtProlonged water scarcity
- dry spellProlonged absence of rain
- cloudsAirborne water masses
- ritualCeremonial set of actions
dance · storm · salesman · dealmaker · big deal · profit · thunder · ceremony · tribe · hustle · closer · closing deals · revenue · indigenous · magic · business · precipitation · cloud seeding
- ancient clergyhigh priest, high priestess, priestess, flamen, pontifex
rain makerdead weight
Inert, burdensome mass
liability · non-producer · deadwood · underperformer · drain
rain makerbit player
Minor role performer
nobody · face in the crowd · grunt · worker bee · foot soldier
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