rainy days

Gloomy, damp stretches

Rainy days are days when it rains, but the phrase usually carries figurative weight.

To save for a rainy day is to set aside money for future hardship: She kept a savings account for a rainy day.

Rainy days evoke gloom, staying indoors, or melancholy: rainy day playlist, rainy day activities for kids.

Related

drizzle · mud · showers · nostalgia · tranquility · patter · wistfulness · damp · melancholy · cloud · coziness · curled up · puddles · introspection · overcast · raincoat · soak · galoshes

Opposites
weather conditions

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Periods of clear skies

sunshine · clear skies · fair weather · blue skies · drought

mood/atmosphere (metaphorical)

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Periods of clear skies

good times · carefree days · golden days · halcyon days · salad days

financial metaphor

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Enjoyable life periods

prosperity · easy street · abundance · windfall · salad days

Family

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Familiarity
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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G