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dawn on
Idioms and Phrases
Also, dawn upon . Become evident or understood, as in It finally dawned on him that he was expected to call them , or Around noon it dawned upon me that I had never eaten breakfast . This expression transfers the beginning of daylight to the beginning of a thought process. Harriet Beecher Stowe had it in Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852): “The idea that they had either feelings or rights had never dawned upon her.” [Mid-1800s]Example Sentences
I mean, it didn’t even dawn on me.”
Early-rising stargazers in the UK woke up to a lunar eclipse just before dawn on Friday.
Do these milestones ever dawn on you?
Early-rising UK stargazers are in for a celestial treat later this week as a partial lunar eclipse takes place just before dawn on Friday.
Ontario — A magnitude 4 earthquake struck before dawn on Oct.
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