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DAY IN AND DAY OUT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does day in and day out mean?
• DAY IN AND DAY OUT (adverb)
The adverb DAY IN AND DAY OUT has 1 sense:
1. without respite
Familiarity information: DAY IN AND DAY OUT used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Without respite
Synonyms:
all the time; day in and day out
Context example:
he plays chess day in and day out
Context examples
For three hundred years my folk have swinked and sweated, day in and day out, to keep the wine on the lord's table and the harness on the lord's back.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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