win the day

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win the day

if you win the day, you persuade people to support your ideas or opinions, or if a particular idea wins the day, it is accepted by a group of people By the end of the meeting it became clear that the radicals had won the day. I was pleased to hear that common sense had won the day and the proposal had been accepted.

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