on the eve of

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Idioms and Phrases

Just prior to, as in On the eve of the conference the main speaker backed out . This expression uses eve , literally “the night before,” more loosely. [Late 1700s]

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First lady Melania Trump also launched a cryptocurrency on the eve of the inauguration.

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"On the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, when we say 'Never Again,' an Israeli citizen cries out for help from Hamas' tunnels. It is a moral failure for the State of Israel," his family said in a statement.

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Raducanu has not had a full-time coach since January, when Nick Cavaday stood down for health reasons, and ended a two-week trial with Vladimir Platenik on the eve of the Miami Open.

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Martin Luther King meets his match in the form of a Memphis hotel maid in an imagined meeting on the eve of his assassination in Katori Hall's The Mountaintop, in a new production by Edinburgh Lyceum, 31 May-21 June.

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News of the attacks comes on the eve of the second anniversary of the civil war between the RSF and the army.

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on the edge on the face of it

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