any day

No set or specific time or date; any time. I don't need the report back immediately, any day will do. My sister could go into labor any day, so I sleep with my phone under my pillow now. The health inspector could be coming any day now.

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any day

1. No particular time, as in It doesn't matter when; any day is fine with me.

2. Also, any day now. Quite soon, as in I might get a call any day, or There could be a snowstorm any day now.

3. Also, any day of the week. Every day, as in I could eat fresh corn any day of the week. All three senses employ any in the sense of "no matter which," a usage dating from a.d. 1000.

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 2003, 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

any day

1 at any time. 2 used to express your strong preference for something under any circumstances.

2 2003 Royal Academy Magazine Give me Bruegel rather than Michelangelo any day.

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ˈany day (of the week)

used for showing that you prefer one thing or person to another: I’d rather have him than his brother any day of the week.

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any day (now)

(spoken) very soon: The letter should arrive any day now.

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