| 单词 | day in day out |
| 释义 | > as lemmasday in (and) day out b. day in (and) day out: every day for an indefinite number of successive days; continuously. Occasionally attributive. [Compare Dutch dag in dag uit , (also) dag uit dag in , German tag ein tag aus , tagein tagaus , (also) tag aus tag ein , tagaus tagein (all 18th cent. or earlier); compare also year in (and) year out at year n. Phrases 3a.] ΘΚΠ the world > time > frequency > [adverb] > repeatedly day and nightOE morning, noon, and nightc1325 new and newa1425 time after time?a1425 over and overa1470 toties quoties1525 again and again1533 reiteratively1619 over and over again1637 repeatedlya1647 times without number1658 to and again1659 —— in, —— out1815 time and time again1821 day in (and) day out1824 recurringly1828 repetitiously1828 recurrently1841 repetitively1872 ever and again1880 recursively1901 twenty-four hours a day1914 serially1978 1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller IV. 119 How hard that I must go on, delving and delving, day in and day out, merely to make a morsel of bread. 1887 M. E. Wilkins Humble Romance (1890) 127 Sewing as she did, day in, day out. 1927 Public Opinion Feb. 109/2 Work—day in day out—and not much money. 1966 G. N. Leech Eng. in Advertising xv. 138 Lifebuoy Toilet Soap With Puralin gives day in–day out protection against B.O. 1985 Math. Mag. 58 226 A mathematical technique [sc. double entry bookkeeping] applied, day in and day out, in the mundane world of business for over five centuries. 2003 R. Lacey Street Bible 203 What's the point? All this backbreaking, brain-aching work that people do day in day out—why? < as lemmas |
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