on the eve of
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3.7
- idiom
:
en vísperas de
- Many people make resolutions on the eve of the New Year, hoping for a fresh start.
- on the eve of the election
- on the eve of the trial
- on the eve of the war
Here's Angelo's statement I write on the eve of trial.
- Here's Angelo's statement I write on the eve of trial.
- But what incentive did Dustin Heiss have to settle this case on the eve of trial if he was not paid off?
- It's called and it's set in the, I think before the First World War on the eve of the collapse of the Austro Hungarian Empire.
- And now, literally on the eve of publishing this podcast episode, everything has changed because of, well, Adam, I'll let you say it.
- But what incentive did Dustin Heist have to settle this case on the eve of trial if he was not paid off?
- We've gone back to where we were on the eve of the debate that blew Joe Biden's hopes of re election up.
- You know, there's a song on there where it's called Blessings that I wrote on on the eve of like one of the Juice World Day.
- What I do remember was on the eve of releasing that film, the thing that had, I don't think I was alone in this.
- After this article by The New York Times on the eve of trial, discovery of Carlson texts set off crisis atop Fox.
- And so here we are in a situation on the eve of a a verdict being delivered in the midst of the Dante Wright situation.
Examples
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So this was the situation on the eve of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
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His application was filed on the eve of the 1992 presidential elections.
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That experience could not be repeated on the eve of the Second World War.
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There we are on the eve of an extremely pivotal American election to say the least.
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Trade between Europe and Africa was a small portion of global commerce on the eve of World War II.
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We fled our home planet on the eve of its destruction.
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The last thing the Obama administration would want would be embarrassing information coming out on the eve of the election.
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And Long won the governorship of Louisiana on the eve of the Great Depression, promising to make Louisiana great again.
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The previous broad-based coalition was formed on the eve of the Six-Day War in 1967.
Academic text (1994) -
"My grandfather, Hirohito, received a letter from President Roosevelt on the eve of World War Two, pleading for peace.
Fiction book (1999)
Synonyms
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Before something happens or someone needs it
The day before an important event when people prepare and wait
Antonyms
How Soon
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'immediately before a significant event' is directly derivable from combining 'eve' (time immediately preceding an event) with the preposition 'on' and the linking 'of'—a straightforward, compositional phrase. This construction is cross-linguistically common (e.g., Spanish 'la víspera de'), so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words should understand it.
Etymology
On the eve of comes from the idea of the eve as the time just before a day or event. That's why on the eve of now means 'immediately before' an important day.