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

“One of these days I’m going to pop into your family’s store. I adore Chinese furniture and antiques.”

From Literature

He says this casually—the same way he sometimes suggests we should get to the art museum one of these days or take a day trip to New York City, but then he never follows up.

From Literature

One of these days, she would have to risk everything and tell them the truth.

From Literature

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

Related Words

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