"rule the day" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "rules the day",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "ruling the day",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
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      "form": "ruled the day",
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        "past"
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          "ref": "1700, John Dryden, The Secular Masque",
          "text": "The world was then so light,\nI scarcely felt the weight;\nJoy ruled the day, and Love the night.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1877, Frances Hodgson Burnett, chapter 5, in Theo",
          "text": "She was a woman of caprices, and her caprices always ruled the day.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1995 December 18, Derek Pringle, “Cricket: Matthews fingered over his thumbs”, in Independent, UK, retrieved 2017-09-01",
          "text": "[C]ommon sense rules the day. . . . Everything can look suspicious, but only the umpires can tell if the ball's condition has been altered.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004 January 19, John F. Dickerson, “Confessions Of A White House Insider”, in Time, retrieved 2017-09-01",
          "text": "A book about former Treasury chief O'Neill paints a presidency in which ideology and politics rule the day.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016 January 19, Jane A. Peterson, “At Watch Auctions, Vintage and Prime to Be Most Prized Qualities”, in New York Times, retrieved 2017-09-01",
          "text": "Vintage watch collecting is growing in scale and value in a way we have never seen before. Condition and rarity are ruling the day in driving prices to new levels.",
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      "glosses": [
        "To set the standard which guides behavior; to control a situation, group, strategy, etc."
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          "control"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To set the standard which guides behavior; to control a situation, group, strategy, etc."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "rue the day"
        }
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        "third-person"
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
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      "form": "ruled the day",
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        },
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          "ref": "1877, Frances Hodgson Burnett, chapter 5, in Theo",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1995 December 18, Derek Pringle, “Cricket: Matthews fingered over his thumbs”, in Independent, UK, retrieved 2017-09-01",
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          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004 January 19, John F. Dickerson, “Confessions Of A White House Insider”, in Time, retrieved 2017-09-01",
          "text": "A book about former Treasury chief O'Neill paints a presidency in which ideology and politics rule the day.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016 January 19, Jane A. Peterson, “At Watch Auctions, Vintage and Prime to Be Most Prized Qualities”, in New York Times, retrieved 2017-09-01",
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        "(idiomatic) To set the standard which guides behavior; to control a situation, group, strategy, etc."
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