Saturday afternoon
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- noun
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sábado por la tarde
- Let's meet at the park on Saturday afternoon for a picnic.
I'm pretty sure that the refugee communities are not sitting together on a Saturday afternoon discussing their clutter.
- I'm pretty sure that the refugee communities are not sitting together on a Saturday afternoon discussing their clutter.
- We don't have the nice things like sport on a Saturday afternoon at a stadium and so forth, and it is really tough from that perspective.
- So you're quite right that there will be the these people who are shrieking and screaming on a on a Saturday afternoon and that's almost become their raison d'etre.
Examples
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"The pavements were crammed with Saturday-afternoon shoppers, the municipal gardens bright with dahlias.
Fiction book (1990) -
We returned on a bleak Saturday afternoon.
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Be at my place Saturday afternoon.
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Good, I'll see you Saturday afternoon.
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I'll be heading back to town next Saturday afternoon.
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When we pulled up at Natalya's that Saturday afternoon, the house lay sleeping in the sun.
Fiction book (1996) -
So we're going down to the beach, Saturday afternoon at Pirate's Cove.
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Boy, you know, every Saturday afternoon me and my dad marched down the street in our uniform to the little movie theater.
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Emily and I arrived in New York at one o'clock on a gray Saturday afternoon.
Fiction book (1997) -
Cookie trudged home, part of the throng of late Saturday afternoon shoppers.
Fiction book (1992)
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the period after noon on Saturday' is directly and compositionally derived from the constituents 'Saturday' (the day) and 'afternoon' (time after noon). This straightforward temporal noun–noun combination follows common cross-linguistic patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both words will understand the MWE.
Etymology
Saturday afternoon comes from joining Saturday, the day of the week, and afternoon, the time after noon. Picture a quiet weekend scene with people relaxing after the morning, and that image explains why it means 'the period of time after noon and before evening on Saturday'.