make it rain
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make it rain (third-person singular simple present makes it rain, present participle making it rain, simple past and past participle made it rain)
- (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!
- (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.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see make, it, rain.
- I asked higher powers to make it rain to save our crops.