Meaning of red letter day | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A day marked in red on calendars; a church feast day.
2. A particularly significant day; a day of personal or sectarian celebration.
   idiomatic

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Examples

“The only red-letter day occurring in July, is the twenty-fifth, called St James's Day.”

“But the monsters who interrupt men in the middle of a sentence are to be found everywhere; and they are always practising. Red-letter days or black-letter days, festival or fast, makes no difference to them.”

“Monday was a red letter day for her. She accomplished a lot and had fun doing it.”

“We saw losses for days in a row, but Black Tuesday was the worst red letter day of them all.”

“"In the meantime, the St. Valentine's Day Massacre at Chicago was a red-letter day in the gangster wars."”

“So I assume that we all have some red letter days that are precious to our memories—maybe a first date, a wedding, a gift, a word of encouragement, a vacation, a graduation or a trip to an interesting place. I had one of those red letter days when I was a young boy, perhaps five or six years old.”

“2010, Eric Braun, Doris Day, Hachette, Revised and updated edition, unnumbered page, That was, indeed, a red-letter day in my filmgoing life, and a red-letter day in my literary life was when I was asked to write a new biography of Doris Day.”

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