give the time of day

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According to some, the expression originally literally referred to greeting someone with the obsolete greeting "good time of day", or other greeting appropriate to the time of day (e.g., good morning, good afternoon, good evening), and only later acquired an association with telling someone the time, along with its idiomatic sense.

9 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Finnish: sanoa päivää — to acknowledge somebody
• Finnish: tervehtiä — to acknowledge somebody
• Polish: zwracać na kogoś uwagę — to acknowledge somebody
• Polish: zwrócić na kogoś uwagę — to acknowledge somebody
• Spanish: dar bola — to acknowledge somebody
• Spanish: dar pelota / piola — to acknowledge somebody
• Spanish: poner bolas — to acknowledge somebody
• Spanish: parar bola — to acknowledge somebody
• Spanish: parar bolas — to acknowledge somebody