broad daylight

1. Ample and obvious natural light, as in You don't need your flashlight—it's broad daylight, or She was accosted on her own street in broad daylight. [1300s]

Example Sentences

In broad daylight on Sunday 19 October, thieves broke into the Louvre's first-floor Apollo Gallery.

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"It's killing people in broad daylight, to terrorise civilians and make sure they understand who is boss in Gaza. We hope this agreement is enough pressure to make sure Hamas disarms."

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In 2022, before the wave of antisemitism unleashed by Hamas’s attack on Israel, the Anti-Defamation League’s Jonathan Greenblatt noted that when Jews were “beaten and brutalized in broad daylight in Midtown Manhattan, in Brooklyn, in the Diamond District,” the assailants had “acted with impunity.”

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Last month, a four-man gang raided the Louvre, the world's most-visited art museum, in broad daylight, taking just seven minutes to steal jewellery worth an estimated $102 million before fleeing on high-powered scooters.

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And a man appeared in a London court on Thursday charged with murder after a stabbing attack in broad daylight which left one dead and two injured.

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