day of days
See also: Day of Days
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day of days (plural days of days)
- (idiomatic) A particularly noteworthy day; the day on which a milestone or especially memorable event occurs.
- 1850, Edgar Allan Poe, Morella:
- "It is a day of days," she said, as I approached; "a day of all days either to live or die. . . . I am dying, yet shall I live."
- 1907, Jack London, The Pen: Long Days in a County Penitentiary:
- At last came the day of days, my release.
- 1940 March 11, “Sport: Four Hundred Grand”, in Time, retrieved 9 July 2015:
- It was a day of days for California railbirds. Not only was it the day of the $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap, world's richest horse race, but this was the now-or-never race for doughty old Seabiscuit, darling of U. S. racing fans, Cinderella of the turf.
- 2012 September 8, George Vecsey, “Tennis: Rain and Rest Days Spell the End of Super Saturday”, in New York Times, retrieved 9 July 2015:
- Super Saturday has been the centerpiece of the United States Open for nearly three decades. But this day of days is heading toward a multimillion-dollar extreme makeover.
- (Christianity, sometimes capitalized) Sunday, especially Easter Sunday.
- 1863 June 7, “To the Editor: Sunday Railway Excursions”, in New York Times, retrieved 9 July 2015:
- The residents skirting the line of the Harlem Railroad as far as Croton Falls, were not a little annoyed, last Sunday, by numerous cheap excursion trains. . . . [W]e doubt whether the law gave being to a great corporation for the purpose of tempting men from their homes on the Day of days.
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- Used with more than random frequency to refer to major events in the sport of horse racing.