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Idioms and Phrases
Fix the date for a wedding, as in Her parents pressed her to name the day . This expression was first recorded in 1766. However, similar usages for specifying a time, such as name the time , date from the late 1500s.Advertisement
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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