make it rain

present singular third person makes it rain · participle present making it rain · participle past made it rain · past made it rain

1. idiomaticTo bring prosperity or work to an enterprise by selling, inventing or other productive or successful activity.

   It's time to make it rain, my friend!

2. idiomaticTo throw a substantial amount of paper money so that it falls on a crowd, audience, performer, or group of performers, often as a way to show off one's wealth.

   John has a propensity to make it rain at parties when he is drunk.

   1 more example

   Get your mayo, sell that yayo, strip clubs make it rain / These thugs play the game, get bucks save that cane

   2004, “Push It”, in Diplomatic Immunity 2, performed by The Diplomats, New York, N.Y.: Koch Records, →OCLC

3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see make, it, rain.

   I asked higher powers to make it rain to save our crops.