What time is 'mid afternoon'?

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Told a friend it was fine to pop in today to collect something she needed to borrow. She said she'd be here 'mid afternoon'.

I assumed she meant 2pm to 3pm.

But it's now 3:45.

I need to go out to run a few errands.

What time would you assume was meant by 'mid afternoon'?

(Not asking what I should do or is she a CF or anything! It's fine, we r good mates, I've called her but she's not answering. I'm not too bothered about the solution/what to do etc ... Just wondering if I had misunderstood 'mid afternoon'!)

5-6pm isn’t late afternoon. That’s early evening 😂

I’d think the same as you OP - 2-3pm is mid afternoon. 4pm is late afternoon.

6pm is definitely not mid afternoon. That would fit just about into the "late afternoon" category and more generally into "early evening".

😮 not afternoon at all!

Similar to you would have thought 2/3pm. 4pm ish onwards would consider late afternoon / early evening.

My first thought was 4 ish, but anywhere 3-4.

2 would be tail end of lunchtime/ early afternoon in my book.

In what world is 5 pm evening? 😂

5pm definitely early evening. I quite often have an (early) evening meal at 5pm.

6 is definitely not mid afternoon in the UK IMO. Evening starts at between 6 and 7 for me, depending on if it’s winter or summer. Probably nearer 7, as if you had an early dinner out it’d be at 7ish. So noon until 2ish is early afternoon, 2ish until 4ish is mid afternoon, and 4is to 6ish is late afternoon. 6ish to 7ish is early evening. 7ish until 10ish is evening. After 10 is night!

5-6 is teatime, obviously.

My world.

It's mid afternoon somewhere!

6pm on a weekday is acceptable wine time and therefore in no way mid afternoon <gavel>

3 pm

I would have said around 3pm. By 4.15 I would say that mid afternoon has definitely passed.

Yes.. definitely it's different seasonally

3pm

Yeah, I think this is what I think.

I’d say 3pm in the grounds that 12 is mid day and 6pm is the beginning of the evening - so half way between that is 3

It's clearly 3pm

2-4, disclaimer I have no kids so don’t need to think about school run etc

That said, if I sent an email at work at 1700 and told a colleague the next morning, I would say I did it last night

My first thought was 3pm ish?!

2-4pm

But I would expect 3pm

Hate vagueness

3-4pm

3-4.

6 is early evening all day long.