the.com/broad daylight
the alibi of the bold and the brazen, who commit crimes too confident to wait for dark
means The full, bright light of midday, when there is no shadow to hide in and everything is plainly visible.
from From "broad," the Old English "brād" meaning wide, full, or ample — the same broad that widens roads and shoulders. Here it stretches across the daylight to mean light at its fullest and most unhidden, the sun spread wide with nothing held back. The phrase has long carried a tone of exposure: to do something in broad daylight is to do it where all the light reaches.
- crime stat
- Most burglaries happen midday, not at night
- word origin
- Broad meant fully open, unconcealed, since the 1300s
- sun's lie
- Daylight reaches you eight minutes after it left
- the dare
- Phrase implies the crime mocks witnesses outright
- legal weight
- Daytime theft often carries lighter charges than nighttime
for instance
robbers in times square — 2000+ robberies occur annually in broad daylight in new york city's times square