English edit

Noun edit

April showers

  1. plural of April shower
  2. (rhyming slang) Flowers.
    • 2010, Carol Rivers, Eve of the Isle:
      ' [] You could sort me out a decent bunch of flowers for me mum's birthday in March. There's nothing she likes better than a big vase of April showers.'
      'Flowers aren't much.'

References edit

  • (flowers): Tony Thorne (2014) “April showers”, in Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, 4th edition, London,  []: Bloomsbury