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catch of the day

catch of the day

4 2.7
The freshest fish or seafood available that day, often on a restaurant menu
  • noun
translation icon : pescado del día
  • Make sure to try the catch of the day, it is always the freshest option.
  • the fresh catch of the day

Examples

  • ♪ Tuna, swordfish Salmon filet ♪ ♪ Marblatt's, the freshest Catch of the day ♪

    Playing Mona Lisa (2000)

  • PHOTO (BLACK & WHITE): Fishermen cleaning their catch of the day.

    Academic text (1998)

  • It's our catch of the day.

    Saltwater (2016)

  • Our first catch of the day.

    The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

  • lt was the catch of the day.

    Taking Care of Business (1990)

  • Forrest unleashes his nets as his catch of the day drops to the deck.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • We'd come home all sunburned and sticky and present Momma and Livvie with our catch of the day.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • Today's special is the catch of the day, fresh from the sea.

  • The menu features a grilled salmon as the catch of the day.

Synonyms

fresh catch
vscatch of the day
1 2.9

Seafood caught recently that is not yet cooked or preserved

is the restaurant's top daily selection of the very freshest seafood

How Fresh

catch of the day
4 2.7
fresh catch
1 2.9

Surface Forms

catch of the day singular
catches of the day plural

Morphology

catch + of + the + day

The meaning is directly compositional: 'catch' (the haul/of fish) combined with 'of the day' (belonging to that day) yields 'the catch for that day' — i.e. the freshest fish available. This is a common, literal menu construction (cf. French 'poisson du jour') so a B1 learner who knows the constituents would readily infer the meaning.

Etymology

The phrase catch of the day comes from the simple picture of a fisherman bringing in the catch he made that day. Restaurants and markets used that label for fish just taken from the sea, so today it means 'the freshest fish available'.