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make it rain

make it rain verb: to bring prosperity or work to an enterprise by selling, inventing or other productive or successful activity.

Verb

make it rain (third-person singular simple present makes it rain, present participle making it rain, simple past and past participle made it rain)

  1. (idiomatic) To bring prosperity or work to an enterprise by selling, inventing or other productive or successful activity.
    • It's time to make it rain, my friend!
  2. (idiomatic) 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.
    • John has a propensity to make it rain at parties when he is drunk.
    • Get your mayo, sell that yayo, strip clubs make it rain / These thugs play the game, get bucks save that cane2004, “Push It”, in Diplomatic Immunity 2, performed by The Diplomats, New York, N.Y.: Koch Records, →OCLC
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see make, it, rain.
    • I asked higher powers to make it rain to save our crops.

make it rain meaning in Bengali

make it rain in Bengali

বিক্রি, দর্শক, শিল্পীদের ওপর গিয়ে পড়ে

Forms of make it rain

third-person singular presentmakes it rain
present participlemaking it rain
past participlemade it rain
pastmade it rain

Origin of make it rain

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”).

Questions about make it rain

What does make it rain mean?
Make it rain means to bring prosperity or work to an enterprise by selling, inventing or other productive or successful activity.
What is make it rain in Bengali?
Make it rain in Bengali is বিক্রি, দর্শক, শিল্পীদের ওপর গিয়ে পড়ে. See Make it rain meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is make it rain?
Make it rain is a verb.
What is the past tense of make it rain?
The past tense of make it rain is made it rain.

Words near make it rain in the dictionary

  1. make it do or do without
  2. make it interesting
  3. make it make sense
  4. make it one's business
  5. make it one's life
  6. make it rain
  7. make it snappy
  8. make it so
  9. make it so that
  10. make it up as one goes along
  11. make it up to

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Adapted from Wiktionary: make it rain (page history and authors); make it rain (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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