win the day
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win the day
To be successful.
See also: day, the, win
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
win the day
if you win the day, you persuade people to support your ideas or opinions, or if a particular idea wins the day, it is accepted by a group of people By the end of the meeting it became clear that the radicals had won the day. I was pleased to hear that common sense had won the day and the proposal had been accepted.
See also: day, the, win
Cambridge Idioms Dictionary, 2nd ed. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2006. Reproduced with permission.
win the day
to achieve complete success New products grab headlines, but useful products that give good value often win the day.