Red-Letter Day – Blog EBE https://englishbookgeorgia.com/blogebg English Book Education Mon, 24 Nov 2014 09:11:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://englishbookgeorgia.com/blogebg/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/cropped-English-Book-Education-Symbol-02-32x32.png Red-Letter Day – Blog EBE https://englishbookgeorgia.com/blogebg 32 32 Interesting Words and Expressions – Red-Letter Day https://englishbookgeorgia.com/blogebg/red-letter-day-interesting-words-and-expressions/ Mon, 23 Jun 2014 08:06:29 +0000 http://englishbookgeorgia.com/blogebg/?p=1099 Do you know what “Red-Letter Day” means?

It’s an important day, or a day that you will remember, because of something good that happened then. Origin: from the custom of using red ink to mark holidays and festivals on a calendar.

Source: The Little Book of Word Origins – Oxford University Press

 

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