monkey's weddingとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

monkey's wedding (複数形 monkeys' weddings)

1. (South Africa) A sun shower.
   • 1939, Country Life‎^[1], volume 85, page 290:

     "Hullo, there's a monkey's wedding," said my wife's niece, a girl of about twenty, born in South Africa […] She was looking out on the lawn, and it was one of those lovely April mornings with sunshine and rain alternating […]

   • 1965, Doris Lessing, Landlocked, HarperPerennial, published 1995, page 132:

     She went on to supply a series of vague remarks until he was not listening: that […] the rain that afternoon had been a real monkey's wedding, half storm, half sunshine.

   • 2010, Claire Datnow, Behind The Walled Garden of Apartheid, page 31:

     "Look, it's a monkey's wedding!" Ba exclaimed, using a well-known South African expression referring to rain and sunshine occurring at the same time, and admiring the eerie effect of rain falling through a burst of sunshine.

参考

• devil's beating his wife (米国用法 phrase for when this occurs)