Anna
What does "a white day" mean in the following sentence? " I will arrive there in a white day!" I read it from a english short essay today, i knew it doesn't mean "during the day" or "daylight"! thanks a lot!
20 avr. 2010 09:13
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I am not familiar with this expression! Maybe if there were more context to the sentence I could tell?
25 avril 2010
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Perhaps a snow day, like a white Christmas? Otherwise, it would refer to the day on March 14(one month after Valentine's Day). You can google it.
21 avril 2010
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The expression is not usually listed in even large-size dictionaries. I checked the British National Corpus and there is only one case of "a white day", from Ruth Rendell's 'Master of the Moor': "It had been a white day, white blank sky, white thin sun, warmish and dull". The meaning in that context seems to be "colourless" and therefore "dull" or "boring". Does that interpretation fit the context where you found your own example?
20 avril 2010
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Yes, I'm confused also. "White Day" seems specifically East Asian, so if it meant that, the meaning would also need to be explained in an English essay. But then it would read, " I will arrive there on White Day!" Were there any other 'coloured days' in the essay? We don't recognise colour-coded days, apart from perhaps a red-letter day, or Black Friday. If the essay itself doesn't explain any more, then I'm sorry, it really makes little sense. :-/
20 avril 2010
maybe it's better to guess the meaning of the word from the context!!
20 avril 2010
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