carry the day

Meaning

1. carry / win the day

   to be successful against sb / sth

   Despite strong opposition, the ruling party carried the day.

In the movies · 4

• I carry that every day.The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus2009
• I've been carrying this all day.GoodFellas1990
• I'm not sure I can carry on another day.Eastern Promises2007
• Haven't I carried you enough this day?The Uninvited1944

Learn it in full scenes

• GoodFellas1990
  • Henry Wants to Be a Gangster
  • Young Henry Gets Beaten and Recruited
  • Paulie's Protection Racket
• The Uninvited1944
  • Pamela Falls for the Old House
  • The Fitzgeralds Try to Buy Windward
  • The Fitzgeralds Buy a Haunted House

From the same entry

• all in a day's work
• any day
• day after day
• day by day
• day in, day out
• a day of reckoning
• days are numbered
• from day one
• from day to day
• from one day to the next
• have had your day
• have seen better days