APAD: Save it for a rainy day.

Meaning: Save it for a time of need.

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Most Chinese immigrants born in the 60s and 70s don't need the reminder. My old

friend Bill, for example, is a compulsive saver. He detests waste in all forms

and has found a gold mine of pet peeves in America. He puts all his money in

T-Bills, drives a 210,000-mile Honda, and after 40, stops visiting restaurants

and shopping malls. He saves as if there were no tomorrow. He's been doing it

not for a rainy day but for the next biblical flood!

 

Of course, his house is a dump and he can't find anything when he needs it:-)

 

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• 哈哈，好生動，記得鄰家的百萬富翁書中描述的富翁的共同特點摳門，愛占便宜。喝最普通的Budweiser，明確告訴作者 -移花接木- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/20/2023 postreply 09:58:28

• 之所以接受 他的采訪是因為能得到100$ -移花接木- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/20/2023 postreply 09:59:55

• Sure. Bill's a miser, rich in the moolah and nothing else:-) -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/20/2023 postreply 10:06:06

• he can't find anything when he needs it. So true! -方外居士- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/20/2023 postreply 11:02:39

• So you must be about the same age and are like Bill, too :-) -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/20/2023 postreply 11:29:43

• I don’t save the waste much. can’t find sth due to bad org. -方外居士- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/20/2023 postreply 11:43:55

• A good story giving a proverb more life. -godog- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/20/2023 postreply 12:33:09

• Thanks for liking. Bill's overdoing it and he has no life:-) -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/20/2023 postreply 12:41:42

• 你的例子太極端了吧 -Zhuzitaba- ♂ (342 bytes) () 10/20/2023 postreply 13:41:27

• 同意 -盈盈一笑間- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/20/2023 postreply 14:01:27

• Agree. My friend is an intense guy :-) -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/20/2023 postreply 14:01:47

• His beneficiary will be quite happy -waterfowl- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/20/2023 postreply 14:24:57

• Indeed, they'll get paid for living with this guy :-) -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/20/2023 postreply 14:43:30

• a song for you and Billy; People are crazy -移花接木- ♂ (194 bytes) () 10/20/2023 postreply 15:02:18

• Wow. Thank you, my friend. That's what we need! -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/20/2023 postreply 15:30:55

• The singer's name happens 2b Billy, but I put u on Billy's -移花接木- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/20/2023 postreply 15:48:28

• Bill as the old man's role -移花接木- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/20/2023 postreply 15:49:09

• I'd bet AI helped in this role-matching :-) -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/20/2023 postreply 16:08:04

• 有趣但不推薦，人生還是瀟灑點好！ -天山晨- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/21/2023 postreply 07:08:08

• No doubt about it! -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/21/2023 postreply 07:56:36