Raincheck????

Question

What do people mean when they say raincheck?

Answer 1

A rain check is a promise to deliver goods or services at a later date. If you offer to buy someone lunch and they say they will take a rain check, that means they accept your offer, but they can't go today. They will take you up on it later.
If Wal-mart has peaches on sale but they run out, they will give you a rain check, an actual slip of paper which says they will give you peaches later at the sale price.

Answer 2

It's supposed to mean they can't do what you've proposed at the given time, due to unforeseen circumstances, i.e., rain, and want to reschedule.

But people frequently "give rainchecks" when they really want to break it off with a guy or girl, but don't want to be so terminal about it.

Answer 3

It is actually two words: "rain check."

It's a promise to honor an offer sometime in the future that cannot be fulfilled today. It originates from baseball, where patrons were given a coupon to attend a game in the future if the game they were watching was rained-out.

Colloquially, the term is used to mean "thanks for the offer -- I can't take you up on it right now, but I will in the future."

Answer 4

In a store or shopping setting the phrase indicates that the store has run out of a certain cheap item that they had marked down in pricev and will give you that item at the low price at a later date. Sometimes there is a paper they will gibe you to assure them that you were the one who asked about the unavailable item.

Answer 5

It is a polite way to decline an invitation opening the possibility to do it in a future time

Answer 6

They mean they want to postpone their plans for another time.