(just) one of those days

idiom

: a day in which many bad or unpleasant things happen

I missed the bus and it splashed mud all over me; it's just one of those days.

It was one of those days when nothing was going right.

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Recent Examples on the Web With a cavalcade of injuries, a getaway game at Coors Field, and still no day off in sight, this was not one of those days. —

Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 9 May 2024 Luckily, though, today is not one of those days, and Annabelle Dexter-Jones leaves Zitomer with an armful of goods. —

Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 2 Apr. 2024 He was supposed to have Tuesdays and Wednesdays off, but he was almost always called in for overtime on one of those days. —

Sydney Ember, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2023 Craft Talk The day would turn out to have been one of those days, but nobody knew that at the time. —

Teju Cole, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023 See all Example Sentences for (just) one of those days

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