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
Mattia	maht-TEE-ah	Italian
Donatianus	-	Late Roman
Shahriyar	-	Persian
Ursula	UR-sə-lə (English), UR-syə-lə (English), OOR-soo-lah (Finnish)	English, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, German, Dutch, Finnish, Late Roman
Rabindra	-	Bengali
Faraji	-	Eastern African, Swahili