As Black Lagoon's Russian mobster implies, the saying means that misfortunes seem to come several at a time. No definite source is known for this phrase, but it's recorded as early as 1726, when a variant was used as part of the title of a book by an author named John Arbuthnot: It Cannot Rain but It Pours or London Strow'd with Rarities. Is there not a saying in English, ' It never rains but it pours?'" "The CIA has a team of agents in town, the Thai drug authority is doing a sweep, the local authorities are putting on a crackdown for the goons from the capitol, and I have an agreement with Chang to keep my hands out of the Toppanga shipment. "You have your pick of organizations to blame for it," she said. "You've got nothing for us to do for the next month?"īalaiaika shrugged, momentarily disarranging the padded shoulders of her sharp suit.
"So let me get this straight," said Dutch. Our second proverb also equates rain with misfortune: Given the poet's lifespan, then, the saying dates back at least to the middle of the 19th century. I'm taking that with a several grains of salt, though: the U.S poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) wrote a poem, "The Rainy Day," that contains the following lines: Into each life some rain must fall, My go-to resource, the Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs, says this phrase showed up in 1935. The saying is usually used as Dutch uses it here, as an admonition that one can't reasonably expect good luck every time. Let's just figure we're due some sunshine next time around." Into every life, a little rain must fall. "Looks that way," said Dutch gloomily, poking fruitlessly around the drop spot. Just as most of the world experiences both clear and rainy days, a person's life contains both good times and bad:
The saying "Into every life a little rain must fall" is nothing more than an observation about the variable nature of life. Let's take a closer look at a couple of familiar sayings about the rain that are really comments about misfortune. Even though rain is necessary for life, the fact that raindrops look like teardrops, along with the darkened skies that rain brings with it during the day, make rain an allusion to sorrow or bad luck in many cultures.
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