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Definition of One of these days
1. Adverb. (idiomatic) One day, some day (context: especially in warning of a negative consequence). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of One Of These Days
Literary usage of One of these days
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of Southern Literature by Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent (1909)
""God fashioned them out of the loss of the pleasures of Paradise— The hills of
One of these Days— To gladden the spirit that tires of the world with ..."
2. Ballades and Rondeaus, Chants Royal, Sestinas, Villanelles, &c. by Gleeson White (1887)
"No pain shall part us then, no grief amaze, No doubt dissolve the glory of our
gaze ; Earth shall be heaven for us twain, she saith, one of these days. ..."
3. Ballades and Rondeaus, Chants Royal, Sestinas, Villanelles, & C. by Gleeson White (1888)
"No pain shall part us then, no grief amaze, No doubt dissolve the glory of our
gaze ; Earth shall be heaven for us twain, she saith, one of these days. ..."
4. Letters of Thomas Carlyle, 1826-1836 by Thomas Carlyle (1888)
"... to Jeffrey of the Edinburgh Review: it was sent to me from Procter of London ;
one of these days I design presenting it, and you shall hear the result. ..."
5. A Series of Letters from London Written During the Years 1856, '57, '58, '59 by George Mifflin Dallas, Julia Dallas (1869)
"To be sure, these combined potentates of Europe may try to force their international
code upon us, and one of these days, with the joint condemnatory ..."
6. Richard to Minna Wagner: Letters to His First Wife by Richard Wagner (1909)
"... introduction one of these days—albeit I require nobody. 78. LONDON, (14 ?)
March 1855. 22. Portland Terrace. Regents Park. Best thanks for your letters, ..."
7. The Trespasser by David Herbert Lawrence (1912)
"'I can open the blue heaven with looking, and push back the doors of day a little,
and see - God knows what 1 one of these days I shall slip through. ..."
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