| 单词 | one of these fine days |
| 释义 | > as lemmasone of these fine days P3. In various phrases denoting some unspecified or unknown time, typically in the future, esp. as one of these fine days, one (also some) fine day. [After French un beau jour, un beau matin (1646 or earlier).] ΘΚΠ the world > time > particular time > [adverb] > at some time somewhilea1240 somewhilec1250 somewhen1297 sometime1600 first and last1719 one of these fine days1762 some fine day1762 somewhere along the line1962 the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > [noun] > one day in the future odd-come-shortly1738 some fine day1762 odd-come-short1832 1762 W. Kenrick tr. J.-J. Rousseau Emilius & Sophia II. iii. 81 Say to him some fine morning, Where shall we dine to day? 1846 G. E. Jewsbury Sel. Lett. to J. W. Carlyle (1892) 189 Some fine day she will let you inside that moral mystery, and will hate you for it afterwards. 1854 C. Dickens Hard Times i. xi. 89 You'll get yourself into a real muddle one of these fine mornings. 1919 D. Ashford Young Visiters viii. 69 Ethel he said blushing a deep red I always wished to marry you some fine day. 1932 Extension Mag. Feb. 34/1 One fine day when he was busy with the plasters he was brought down to earth by the sound of a horse coming on the dead run. 1966 ‘A. Hall’ 9th Directive iv. 42 One fine day he would catch me wide open and slam me down. 1994 J. Kelman How Late it Was 252 Then of course one of these fine days the heavy squad from the housing depot would appear and turf him off the premises. 2000 A. Sayle Barcelona Plates 75 I met the burger chef who one fine day might be the Minister for Information Technology. < as lemmas |
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