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From: dacosta@prl.philips.nl (Paulo da Costa)
Subject: Re: One fine day
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In <3ib7l4$2u4@uwm.edu> corre@alpha1.csd.uwm.edu (Alan D Corre) writes:

[...] Did Russian borrow this idiom
>from English? Do French and German, the other languages exercising great
>influence on Russian, have a comparable locution? ("Par un beau jour
>d'ete.." or something like that.) [...]

In Portuguese it's "Um belo dia, ...", exactly the same as in English.
I expect it's a pan-european expression.
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