make one's day

make one's day idiom
Give one great pleasure, as in Hearing you won first prize just made my day. This phrase, which uses make in the sense of “secure success in,” was first recorded in 1909.

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.

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