one of these days

Idioms  

1. Also, one day; some day. On some day in the future, as in One of these days I'm going to clean out my desk, or One day you'll see what it's like to have your child insult you, or They hoped to buy a brand-new car some day. [Mid-1500s] Also see one of those days.

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Example Sentences

Tuesday was a day of “heavy selling in the precious metals space, one that was always going to come one of these days given how prices were previously just sky rocketing,” he wrote in a note Tuesday.

From MarketWatch

But one of these days, a crisis might erupt, the sort of crisis that requires expertise to assess and address—maybe a showdown with China, a pandemic requiring multinational cooperation, a battle that demands rapid innovation in the planning centers of the Pentagon—and it might be too late to call the long-dismissed and -dispersed experts back to their stations.

From Slate

Still, she added, Mexicans “must live with the worry that one of these days ... Trump resorts directly to action. Whether he does it, or doesn’t do it, doesn’t depend on us. It may simply reflect his political need at a given moment.”

From Los Angeles Times

He’s like, “Dude, listen, I got a studio at my place — one of these days let’s get together and do some songwriting.”

From Los Angeles Times

The state’s outgoing Republican Governor, Eric Holcomb, said in a piece for the IndyStar, “One of these days, Dolly Parton will pay us a visit to celebrate the statewide embrace of the Dolly Parton Imagination Library, another tool to help our kids read.”

From Salon

Related Words

• finally
• one day
• sometime
• sooner or later
• subsequently
• ultimately