Take a rain check

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hi i'm vanessa from speak english with

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vanessa calm today we're going to talk

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about four American idioms let's get

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started you might be wondering what in

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the world is an American idiom well

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these idioms might be understood by

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people in the UK but they're most often

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used by Americans and if you said one of

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these to someone from the US they would

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instantly understand what you meant and

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they wouldn't feel weird at all like you

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were using an expression that they

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hadn't heard very often for each of

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these idioms I'm gonna tell you a little

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story and I want you to guess what you

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think the idiom means based on the

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context so for our first idiom I want to

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tell you a quick story about last week

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one of my friends who has a small baby

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we were gonna get together and in the

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morning when we were about to get

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together she called me and said hey

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Vanessa I'm sorry I gotta take a rain

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check because my baby is not feeling too

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well so I want to just relax at home and

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maybe we can get together next week what

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do you think this idiom take a rain

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check means take a rain check think

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about it for a moment in this context we

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were going to get together but we needed

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to change some plans because her baby

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wasn't feeling well