to dance in the rain
- idiom
- Informal
:
bailar bajo la lluvia
- After a long week, she decided to dance in the rain and let go of her worries.
Examples
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Together, they laughed and danced in the rain, forgetting all their troubles.
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He felt so happy that he couldn't help but dance in the rain like a child.
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Me & Sridevi were dancing in the rain.
Synonyms
6
8.6
Enjoy yourself by dancing with a lot of energy
Move your body freely and confidently without worrying about other people
Move your body freely and happily without worrying about being watched
How Carefree
- Informal
7
7.3
- Informal
Surface Forms
Morphology
The literal sense 'to dance while it is raining' is directly built from 'dance' + 'in' + 'rain', so learners can easily derive the concrete image. The intended figurative meaning 'to enjoy life despite problems' is a metaphorical extension of that image and requires pragmatic inference beyond the literal composition. Because the connection is plausible but not fully predictable without exposure (though similar celebratory-against-adversity metaphors occur cross-linguistically), this is only partially transparent to B1 learners.
Etymology
Dance in the rain gives a clear picture: a person chooses to dance while the rain falls instead of hiding under an umbrella. That image shows choosing joy during hard times, so the phrase means 'to enjoy life freely and without worrying about problems or hardships'.