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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Travel is one of the targets of the boycott, Thanksgiving travel numbers broke records on the day the campaign began, so there’s nothing mass about the blackout yet.
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Newsweek Editors, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2025
Rahmanullah Lakanwal, a 29-year-old Afghan national, has been identified as the gunman accused of shooting two National Guard members just blocks from the White House on the day before Thanksgiving, law enforcement sources told Fox News Digital.
—Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 27 Nov. 2025
Authorities said her word was backed up by surveillance video, cellphone records that show her and Coronado-Miranda’s phones were aligned for much of the early morning on the day of the incident and a rape test taken after her rescue.
—Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 26 Nov. 2025
Falor suggested in an interview with WWTV that on the day Park vanished, an unknown person picked her up from her mother’s home and took her away in a car.
—Chris Spargo, PEOPLE, 26 Nov. 2025
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Newsweek Editors, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2025
Rahmanullah Lakanwal, a 29-year-old Afghan national, has been identified as the gunman accused of shooting two National Guard members just blocks from the White House on the day before Thanksgiving, law enforcement sources told Fox News Digital.
—Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 27 Nov. 2025
Authorities said her word was backed up by surveillance video, cellphone records that show her and Coronado-Miranda’s phones were aligned for much of the early morning on the day of the incident and a rape test taken after her rescue.
—Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 26 Nov. 2025
Falor suggested in an interview with WWTV that on the day Park vanished, an unknown person picked her up from her mother’s home and took her away in a car.
—Chris Spargo, PEOPLE, 26 Nov. 2025
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“On the day.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/on%20the%20day. Accessed 29 Nov. 2025.
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