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from this day forward

Idioms  
  1. Also, from this day on; from now on. Beginning today and continuing forever, as in They promised to follow instructions from this day forward, or From now on I'll do what you say. The first rather formal expression for this concept dates from about 1500. The second was used in the past tense by Thomas Hobbes in Odyssey (1675): “From that day on, centaurs and men are foes.” The last version is the most common today.


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“All the people who die from this day forward will also die because of you, because of your weakness, because of your lack of unity,” he said in a nighttime address.

From Washington Times • Mar. 4, 2022

That’s just on a whole different level proud, no matter what he does from this day forward.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 8, 2021

"This young child and his family will face life-altering trauma from this day forward, a reality that nobody expects when they buy concert tickets," a lawyer for the family said in a statement on Tuesday.

From BBC • Nov. 9, 2021

"I didn't know that from this day forward I would be asking: Why did they die? Why was I alive?" the famed actor and producer wrote.

From Fox News • Feb. 6, 2020

And you can fetch your own food and empty your own chamberpot and carry your own blasted firewood from this day forward.

From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson