evil day
English
Noun
- The time when something unpleasant occurs.
- Synonym: evil hour
- to put off the evil day
- to fall on evil days
Usage notes
In the singular, used with the definite article the.
Further reading
- “the evil day hour” (US) / “the evil day hour” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
- “the evil day hour”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “the evil hour day etc” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.
- “put off the evil day”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “put off the evil day”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “fall on evil days”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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