carry the day - Idioms In English

source: Twominute English    2013年6月27日
"To carry the day" means to be victorious, or to carry your team to a victory due to an action on your part. If a person does something great that led to a positive outcome, he has carried the day. Here in this video the meaning of the idiom 'carry a day' is discussed along with examples.
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0:06 In this lesson you will learn to use the idiom 'carry the day' in your conversations.
0:17 To carry the day means to be victorious or to have brought about a good outcome.
0:22 That's right, the idiom in fact means to be successful in anything.
0:28 Actually this idiom is used in many ways. It may mean profit in business or a winning deal!
0:34 Correct! If someone carries the day, it means that he made a decision or had an idea that emerged to be correct or gave positive results.
0:44 Would you give us an example, Ema?
0:46 Sure. The Barcelona team was losing the game, but Cortez scored two goals in the last five minutes and carried the day for them!
0:54 Yes Ema. It's almost unbelievable how he scored those two goals in the last five minutes and took them to victory!
1:01 Here's another example: Suzanne carried the day by coming up with a winning design proposal. We got the account!
1:01 Here's another example: Suzanne carried the day by coming up with a winning design proposal. We got the account!
1:09 Good! Thank you, Emma. Let's listen to some conversations now.
1:19 Hey Terry, congratulations man!
1:19 Hey Terry, congratulations man!
1:22 Thank you Mark!
1:24 We are really proud of you, my friend! You carried the day for our school by winning the tennis match!
1:30 Thank you again, Mark. I'm going to practice harder for the state finals.
1:40 Hey Windy, I really thought the other Presidential candidate was going to win.
1:45 Yeah! It was very close, but in the end California carried the day by voting for our guy.
1:51 Yes. California has a lot of electoral votes.
1:55 They pulled it off for us in the end.
1:57 Right! They really carried the day.
2:05 How did you end up the term with only 'A's, Mark? I thought you'd got a 'B' in Chemistry,
2:12 I thought so too, but the teacher was really impressed by my final experiment.
2:18 Looks like that experiment carried the day for you.
2:22 Yes, I'm glad I spent extra time on it and wrote a detailed report on the results.
2:28 Maybe it was that report that carried the day!
2:32 Either way, I'm happy. I got an 'A'.
2:39 Suzanne carried the day by coming up with a winning design proposal.
2:49 You carried the day for our school by winning the tennis match!
2:58 It was very close, but in the end California carried the day by voting for our guy.
3:09 They really carried the day.
3:16 Looks like that experiment carried the day for you.
3:24 Maybe it was that report that carried the day!