"make someone's day" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-make someone's day.ogg [Australia] Forms: makes someone's day [present, singular, third-person], making someone's day [participle, present], made someone's day [participle, past], made someone's day [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|make<,,made> someone's day}} make someone's day (third-person singular simple present makes someone's day, present participle making someone's day, simple past and past participle made someone's day)
  1. (idiomatic) To make someone happy, or be a source of satisfaction, for the rest of the day. Tags: idiomatic Categories (topical): Emotions Related terms: daymaker, not give someone the time of day Translations (make someone happy): ilahduttaa jotakuta (Finnish), tehdä joku iloiseksi (Finnish), faire plaisir à quelqu’un (French), rendre quelqu’un heureux (pour la journée) (French), jemanden glücklich machen (German), jemandem Freude machen (German), jemandem den Tag retten (German), feldobja/bearanyozza a napját (Hungarian), gleðja einhvern (Icelandic), far felice qualcuno (Italian), rallegrare la giornata a qualcuno (Italian), migliorare la giornata a qualcuno (Italian), upiększać komuś dzień [imperfective] (Polish), upiększyć komuś dzień [perfective] (Polish), осчастли́вить кого́-то (osčastlívitʹ kovó-to) [perfective] (Russian), пора́довать кого́-то (porádovatʹ kovó-to) [perfective] (Russian), alegrarle el día a alguien (Spanish), hacérsela buena a alguien (Spanish), darle el gusto a alguien (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-make_someone's_day-en-verb-Y3Sq~h0e Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

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      "sense": "make someone happy",
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      "word": "far felice qualcuno"
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      "sense": "make someone happy",
      "word": "rallegrare la giornata a qualcuno"
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      "roman": "osčastlívitʹ kovó-to",
      "sense": "make someone happy",
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      "word": "осчастли́вить кого́-то"
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      "sense": "make someone happy",
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      "sense": "make someone happy",
      "word": "alegrarle el día a alguien"
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      "sense": "make someone happy",
      "word": "hacérsela buena a alguien"
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