Take a Rain Check
What it means
Decline an invitation for now while making clear you would like to accept it another time.
Where it comes from
Baseball clubs began issuing rain checks in the 1880s, a stub letting a ticket holder return for a later game if rain stopped play. The paper slip became a polite social formula.
The puzzle it came from
Take a Rain Check was the answer to the Phrasicle of July 23, 2025. The clue read ____ a ____ ____, and the words came out of a grid where every neighbouring pair makes a two-word phrase.
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double
take
note
book
shelf
slow
dance
party
animal
kingdom
virtual
reality
check
list
price
summer
rain
cloud
cover
letter
Phrasicle: Take a Rain Check