make it rain

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To bring prosperity or work to an enterprise by selling, inventing or other productive or successful activity. idiomatic
    — It's time to make it rain, my friend!
  2. 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. idiomatic
    — John has a propensity to make it rain at parties when he is drunk.
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see make, it, rain.
    — I asked higher powers to make it rain to save our crops.

词形变化

makes it rain present,singular,third-person making it rain participle,present made it rain participle,past made it rain past

词源

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”).
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