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单词 to make a day of it
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to make a day of (also †on) it
b. to make a day of (also †on) it: to devote a whole day to a particular activity, esp. a pleasurable one; to spend the day on an excursion. Cf. make v.1 12b, to make a night of it at night n. 6a.
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1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre ii. v. 34 in Wks. II No 'faith, Dine in Apollo with Pecunia, At braue Duke Wadloos, haue your friends about you, And make a day on 't.
1763 J. Boswell Jrnl. 28 July in London Jrnl. (1950) 327 Come..let us make a day of it. Let us go down to Greenwich and dine.
1828 C. Lamb Let. Dec. (1935) III. 198 From this paradise, making a day of it, you go to see the ruins of an old convent at March Hall.
1885 Cent. Mag. 30 393/2 Friends and neighbours also made a day of it, and then also a night of it, in honour of the departed.
1965 E. Salter Once upon Tombstone ii. xvii. 152 How about a trip up the glacier? We could take a packed lunch and make a day of it.
2003 J. Mullaney We'll be Back 7 My mates (the usual suspects) decided we'd make a day of it and go by train, have a few beers as you do, and after the match, win or lose, have a night out.
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