英语词汇rain check的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

rain check. An old story says the rain check—the detachable part of a ticket that a spectator uses to gain admission to a fu- ture baseball game if the current game is postponed because of rain—was invented by Abner Powell of the minor league New Orleans Pelicans in 1888. Powell conceived the idea, according to the tale, because when his club’s games were rained out, peo- ple who hadn’t attended the cancelled game lined up to get re- placement tickets for the next game, costing him a lot of money. The story sounds good, but the term rain check is first recorded four years earlier in St. Louis. Rain checks aren’t common these days, as tickets usually list the rain date. The term is widely used today to mean an offered or requested postponement of an invitation until another time. When sale items (groceries, etc.) scheduled for a certain day are sold out on that day, cus- tomers are often gives rain checks to buy them when they are back in stock.

词汇	rain check
词源	rain check. An old story says the rain check—the detachable part of a ticket that a spectator uses to gain admission to a fu- ture baseball game if the current game is postponed because of rain—was invented by Abner Powell of the minor league New Orleans Pelicans in 1888. Powell conceived the idea, according to the tale, because when his club’s games were rained out, peo- ple who hadn’t attended the cancelled game lined up to get re- placement tickets for the next game, costing him a lot of money. The story sounds good, but the term rain check is first recorded four years earlier in St. Louis. Rain checks aren’t common these days, as tickets usually list the rain date. The term is widely used today to mean an offered or requested postponement of an invitation until another time. When sale items (groceries, etc.) scheduled for a certain day are sold out on that day, cus- tomers are often gives rain checks to buy them when they are back in stock.
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