[Ads-l] "that'll be the day"

[Dan Goncharoff]

Isn't the phrase from Revelations?

"That will be the day of the righteous judgment of God."

DanG

On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 8:40 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> My grandmother (b. 1888) used to say, "That'll be the day!"
>
> Come to think of it, it's been a long, long time since I heard anyone say
> it. Will have to start using it.
>
> BTW, "the day" might simply indicate "the most remarkable day ever." At
> least that's how I interpreted it as a boy.
>
> JL
>
> On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 6:59 AM, Robin Hamilton <
> robin.hamilton3 at virginmedia.com> wrote:
>
> > I think there Buddy Holly is playing off rather than reflecting the
> normal
> > sense of the idiom, which would be:
> >
> >            'That'll be the day!" [when pigs fly].
> >
> > Sometime / Never
> >
> > Robin Hamilton
> >
> >
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> > -----Original Message----- From: Wilson Gray
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> > Subject: Re: "that'll be the day"
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> >
> > _That'll Be the Day_
> >
> > by Buddy Holly and Jerry Allison
> >
> > Well, that'll be the day, when you say goodbye
> > Yes, that'll be the day, when you make me cry
> > You say you're gonna leave, you know it's a lie
> > 'Cause that'll be the day, when I die
> >
> > Et seq.
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 2:05 AM, x <
> > 0000053c1ce4c7f7-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:
> >
> > watched john wayne's the searchers yesterday in which wayne repeatedly
> >> says "that'll be the day". but what "day" is he talking about? and what
> >> "day" does the phrase refer to? i wonder if the phrase has a biblical
> >> reference. is it possibly the "day" of the apocalypse, the last day on
> >> earth? makes sense.
> >>
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