one day

one day
one day or one of these days
At some indefinite time in the (near) future
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Main Entry:day

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I one day (or one of these days)
at some time in the future

our wishes will come true one of these days

II
at a particular but unspecified time in the past or future

one day a boy started teasing Grady | he would one day be a great president

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one day
1 : at some time in the future

One day, it'll happen. You'll see.

People may one day [=someday] be able to take vacations to the moon.

2 : on a day in the past

I went to her house one day and had lunch with her.

One day, we had a terrible argument.

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Main Entry:day

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ˈone day idiom
at some time in the future, or on a particular day in the past

One day, I want to leave the city and move to the country.

One day, he walked out of the house with a small bag and never came back.

Main entry:dayidiom

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