make one's day

Give one great pleasure, as in Hearing you won first prize just made my day. This phrase, which uses make in the sense of "secure success in," was first recorded in 1909.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Amery	AM-ə-ree	English (Rare)
SinÉAd	shi-NAYD	Irish
Posy	PO-zee	English
&Aelig;Lred	-	Anglo-Saxon
Larunda	-	Roman Mythology
Arjun	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Gujarati, Bengali, Nepali