on the day

idiom

British

: on the day that an event happens

I know we seem a bit disorganized now, but we'll be all right on the day.

Whether we win or not depends on which players are healthy on the day.

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Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, who also killed someone attending the Butler rally and injured two others, was killed by the Secret Service on the day of his assassination attempt. —

Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 9 Feb. 2025 Police say Dumas was last seen on surveillance footage entering and leaving a liquor store in Huntsville with two women on the day he was abducted. —

Fernando Cervantes Jr., USA TODAY, 9 Feb. 2025 Sometimes, that feeling can be fun and hyperbolic, as when Navis and her set decoration team decided on the day to take all the dolls scattered around Hamid and Dallas’ house and pile them into the mother-in-law’s room Mo attempts to stay in. —

Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 9 Feb. 2025 Even on the day of the Super Bowl in 2022, Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow was playing chess beforehand. —

Issy Ronald, CNN, 9 Feb. 2025 See all Example Sentences for on the day