broad daylight

Idioms  

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]

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broad daylight

Hazzard said there is "no place for masked men, paramilitary style face coverings in broad daylight".

From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026

So he did, in broad daylight, one afternoon in 1983—went right across the Rio Grande, the Rio Bravo del Norte, as they called it in Chihuahua.

From Slate ● Jan. 27, 2026

But rarely have so many taken the risk, and in broad daylight to boot.

From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2025

Long before its young heroes think about creeping through the sewers, nightmares confront them in broad daylight.

From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2025

Those were Sons of the Six in broad daylight, perhaps some of the very same ones who’d come into the zoo.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray