broad daylight

Idioms

Ample and obvious natural light, as in You don't need your flashlight—it's broad daylight, or She was accosted on her own street in broad daylight. [1300s]

Example Sentences

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García finds it dubious that the group of dissidents were swiftly intercepted in broad daylight by a Cuban border guard vessel in a remote coastal area, especially given Cuba’s acute fuel shortages and the deterioration of Cuba’s military boats.

From The Wall Street Journal

“If this is what they’re doing in broad daylight, it’s scary to think what they could do at nighttime.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Museum bosses have come under increasing scrutiny in recent months, after thieves stole priceless French crown jewels from the museum in broad daylight and hundreds of books were damaged in a leak.

From BBC

Grant Cranston said he was surprised by how brazen the thieves who targeted his Inverness chip shop were, adding: "It was broad daylight. There were people walking around."

From BBC

Groft was accused of cutting down 12 trees, as well as sawing the limb off a 13th, across a seven-day period beginning April 13 — sometimes in broad daylight, other times in the dead of night.

From Los Angeles Times

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