What is "broad daylight"

Usage examples of "broad daylight".

But it was broad daylight, and getting close would be a mother of a task, probably beyond the range of possibility until nightfall.

She was torpedoed in broad daylight on a lovely sunny afternoon: there had been the usual scare, the usual waiting, the usual noise of an under-water explosion, and then, from this ship they had been trying to guard, a colossal pillar of smoke and flame came billowing out, and in a minute the long shapely hull was on fire almost from end to end.

The last thing I wished to happen was to approach the Huyler shore in broad daylight and give rise to comment on the part of the inevitable ship-watchers as to why a crew member should be so eccentric as to prefer the cold roof of the wheelhouse to the warmth inside.

At the end of the second week in September a cart came in through Bywater from the direction of the Brandywine Bridge in broad daylight.

Call me paranoid, but there's nothing like a murder attempt in broad daylight to make a man cautious.

Dragging with him a numb and resigned Camilla who wore her hat and sunglasses, he had sought a place well away from the house and cave, where he felt they had a chance of being able to talk safely, at least in broad daylight.

Anything that he was going to do, he would have done under cover of darkness and not waited for broad daylight.

Sometimes his foot splashed in an unseen puddle, but he wouldn't have gone out of his way to avoid so minor an inconvenience in broad daylight.

If he wants to name another place and time, I'll consider it, provided it meets my conditions, broad daylight and very public.

Even now, in broad daylight, the air hurled by the howling winds along the crest was grayish, filled with a strange unnatural mist, when it was not opaque with snow.