Chapter Davenport to De Rigueur of D by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

hence "se'n-night" and "fortnight;" the Athenians, Chinese, Mahometans, etc., Italians, Austrians, and Bohemians. (2) With sun-rise: The Babylonians, Syrians, Persians, and modern Greeks. (3) With noon: The ancient Egyptians and modern astronomers. (4) With midnight: The English, French, Dutch, Germans, Spanish, Portuguese, Americans, etc.
   A day after the fair. Too late; the fair you came to see is over.
   Day in, day out. All day long.

"Sewing as she did, day in, day out." - W. R. Wilkins: The Honest Soul.

   Every dog has its day. (See under DOG.)
   I have had my day. My prime of life is over; I have been a man of light and leading, but am now "out of the swim. "

"Old Joe, sir ... was a bit of a favourite ... once; but he has had his day." - Dickens.

   I have lost a day (Perdidi diem) was the exclamation of Titus, the Roman emperor, when on one occasion he could call to mind nothing done during the past day for the benefit of his subjects.
   To-day a man, to-morrow a mouse. In French, "Aujourd'hui roi, demain rien. " Fortune is so fickle that one day we may be at the top of the wheel, and the next day at the bottom.

Day of the Barricades (See Barricades.)

Day of the Dupes in French history, was November 11th, 1630, when Marie de Medicis and Gaston Duc d'Orléans extorted from Louis XIII. a promise that he would dismiss his Minister, the Cardinal Richelieu. The cardinal went in all speed to Versailles, the king repented, and Richelieu became more powerful than ever. Marie de Medicis and Gaston were the dupes who had to pay dearly for their short triumph.

Day-dream A dream of the imagination when the eyes are awake.

Daylight in drinking bumpers, means that the wine-glass is not full to the brim; between the wine and the rim of the wine-glass light may be seen. Toast-masters used to cry out, "Gentlemen, no daylights nor heeltaps" - the heeltap being a little wine left at the bottom of the glass. The glass must be filled to the brim, and every drop of it must be drunk.

Daylights The eyes, which let daylight into the sensorium.
   To darken one's daylights. To give one such a blow on the eyes with the fist as to prevent seeing. (Pugilistic slang.)

Days set apart as Sabbaths Sunday by Christians; Monday by the Greeks; Tuesday by the Persians; Wednesday by the Assyrians; Thursday by the Egyptians; Friday by the Turks; Saturday by the Jews.

Christians worship God on Sunday.
Grecian zealots hallow Monday,
Tuesday Persians spend in prayer,
Assyrians Wednesday revere,
Egyptians Thursday, Friday Turks,
On Saturday no Hebrew works. E. C. B.

Daysman An umpire, judge, or intercessor. The word is dais-man (a man who sits on the daïs); a sort of lit de justice. Hence Piers Ploughman -

"And at the day of doom
At the height Deys sit."

Dayspring The dawn: the commencement of the Messiah's reign.

"The dayspring from on high hath visited us."
- Luke i.78.

Daystar (The). The morning star. Hence the emblem of hope or better prospects.

"Again o'er the vine-covered regions of France,
See the day-star of Liberty rise."
Wilson: Noctes (Jan., 1831, vol. iv. p. 231).

De Bonne Grace (French). Willingly; with good grace.

De Die in Diem From day to day continuously, till the business is completed.

"The Ministry have elected to go on de die in diem." - Newspaper paragraph, December, 1885.

De Facto Actually, in reality; in opposition to de jure, lawfully or rightfully. Thus John was de facto king, but Arthur was so de jure.