one fine day

one fine day

Suddenly on some unspecified or unremarkable day. One fine day, the police showed up to tell me that my business partner had been using our company as a money-laundering service for nearly 10 years right under my nose. My father decided one fine day that he wanted to buy a camper van and travel the country on his own.
See also: fine, one
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

one fine day

at some unspecified or unknown time.
1990 Wilfred Sheed Essays in Disguise If Sydney blew away one fine day, Melbourne could easily take its place as a center of mateship and conspicuous democracy.
See also: fine, one
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
See also:
  • just another day at the office
  • hands-on
  • from day to day
  • make a day of (doing something)
  • make a day of doing
  • make a day of it
  • from one day to the next
  • (just) one of those days
  • day out
  • not (one's) day
References in classic literature
ONE FINE DAY, not long after Little John had left abiding with the Sheriff and had come back, with his worship's cook, to the merry greenwood, as has just been told, Robin Hood and a few chosen fellows of his band lay upon the soft sward beneath the greenwood tree where they dwelled.
I was walking about the Nefsky one fine day, prince, in my father's old coat, when she suddenly came out of a shop and stepped into her carriage.
After the break of one fine day the weather was pretty consistently dull.
Britannia, sitting meditating one fine day (perhaps in the attitude in which she is presented on the copper coinage), discovers all of a sudden that she wants Veneering in Parliament.
Off he packed the Methodists, one fine day, exiled several hundred of his people to Samoa for sticking to Methodism, and, of all things, invented a religion of his own, with himself the figure-head of worship.
One fine day the tile-maker had a paralytic stroke, and I had him removed to the hospital at Grenoble at once.
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Michelle Pfeiffer stars in One Fine Day King Kong (Channel 5, 6.30pm - 9.55pm) Peter Jackson's adaptation of the classic adventure, starring Naomi Watts, Jack Black, Adrien Brody and Kyle Chandler.
With a heady art sojourn and a gustatory adventure to boot, lady quartet The Chiffons would definitely agree that Le Monet offers a unique, 'One Fine Day' in the City of Pines.
Hope triumphed on Good Friday, one fine day in ninety eight.
What about One Fine Day? ONE Fine Day is my satire about climate sceptics.
One fine day those in power might learn not to underestimate those in the north of the country as it can lead to nasty surprises.
We walked by the river one fine day, Enjoying the scenery along the way, We came to a lock where the river split, There was an island with a bridge over to it.
Featuring hit after hit from Twist & Shout, Handy Man to Pretty Woman, One Fine Day and many more.
Anyone who's seen the film One Fine Day where baby-sitter George Clooney fails to notice that Michelle Pfeiffer's little boy has pushed a bead up his nose would sympathise with the situation that he found himself in.