make it rain

短语

发音

AU

词形变化

made it rain makes it rain 三单 makes it rain making it rain making it rain 现在分词 made it rain 过去式 made it rain 过去分词

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To bring prosperity or work to an enterprise by selling, inventing or other productive or successful activity.

    习语

    It's time to make it rain, my friend!

  2. 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.

    习语

    John has a propensity to make it rain at parties when he is drunk.

  3. 3.

    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see make, it, rain.

    I asked higher powers to make it rain to save our crops.

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”).

来源：wiktionary