goldarned best day
- noun
- Archaic
:
maldito mejor día
- Winning the championship was the goldarned best day of his life.
Examples
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After all the waiting, their wedding turned out to be the goldarned best day ever.
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Today is the goldarned best day of my life!
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She said yesterday was the goldarned best day she's had in years.
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What a goldarned best day it has been!
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After all the waiting, their wedding turned out to be the goldarned best day ever.
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She said yesterday was the goldarned best day she's had in years.
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Winning the championship was the goldarned best day of his life.
Synonyms
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4.1
A day that is very special and makes people happy
A day you remember because it was very happy or important
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The core noun phrase 'best day' is fully transparent to a B1 learner who knows 'best' and 'day', but the premodifier 'goldarned' is a nonstandard/minced-oath form (not lexically clear) whose literal parts do not transparently convey its intensifying meaning. Because the overall sense ('an emphatically very best day') can usually be inferred from the position and pragmatic context but not reliably derived from the unknown modifier alone, this is partially but not fully transparent.
Etymology
Goldarned best day may come from people changing a strong swear into a softer country word. Saying goldarned as 'gold' instead of 'god' made the phrase a folksy way to mean 'the very best day'.