rain off

/ɹˈeɪn ˈɒf/

/ɹˈeɪn ˈɔf/

[verb]

to rain off

[VERB]

MAIN VERB

[phrase form: rain]

to cancel or postpone a match or game due to heavy rain or unfavorable weather conditions

Examples

1. oh rain rain it's a good thing we have this marquee otherwise totally rained off every day so keeps raining

2. Did your barbeque get rained off again, Neil?

3. It's really windy and raining off and on.

4. Because it's the rainy season in Mumbai right now, and it's been raining off and on all day, when it stops raining, the air is just so incredibly humid, it's just saturated with water, you can probably see my face right now, I don't know, can you see beads of perspiration, but just walking around Dhobi Ghat for a few seconds, and I'm just literally dripping.