take a rain check (on something)
said when politely refusing an offer, with the implication that one may accept it at a later date: I can't make it tonight, but I'd like to take a rain check.
take a rain check (on something)
INFORMAL
If you tell someone you will take a rain check, you are saying that you will not accept their offer now but that you might accept it at a different time. I'm sorry, Stan, I'm just too exhausted to go out tonight. Could I take a rain check? She says she'd like to take a rain check on it and do it in May.
Note: This expression refers to baseball. If a baseball game was cancelled because of rain, people were entitled to see another game by showing their original ticket or receipt. This ticket was called a rain check.
facetious /fəˈsiːʃəs/
adjective
treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humor; flippant: a facetious remark.
THESAURUS
facetious /fəˈsiːʃəs/
adjective
no facetious remarks, please: FLIPPANT, flip, glib, frivolous, tongue-in-cheek, waggish, whimsical, joking, jokey, jesting, jocular, playful, roguish, impish, teasing, arch, mischievous, puckish; in fun, in jest, witty, amusing, funny, droll, comic, comical, chucklesome, lighthearted, high-spirited, bantering; archaic frolicsome, sportive; rare jocose. ANTONYMS serious
ORIGIN
late 16th century (in the general sense ‘witty, amusing’): from French facétieux, from facétie, from Latin facetia ‘jest’, from facetus ‘witty’.
