day in, day out

English

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Adverb

day in, day out

1. (idiomatic) Every day; daily; constantly or continuously (especially, of something that has become routine or monotonous).

   Synonym: day after day

   Even if you like peanut butter sandwiches, eating the same sandwiches day in, day out will get old.

   • 2022 January 26, John Crosse, “When the tide turned to a safer railway...”, in RAIL, number 949, page 52:

     There were derailments happening day in and day out, due in part to 'shunting mishaps' but more frequently involving wagons in freight trains due to a combination of poor track and speed.

Related terms

• week in, week out
• year in, year out
• night in, night out
• month in, month out

Translations

day in, day out

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 日復一日／日复一日 (zh) (rìfùyīrì)

• Danish: dag ind og dag ud, dag ud og dag ind, dag efter dag
• Dutch: dagdagelijks (nl), dag in dag uit, dag na dag
• Finnish: päivästä toiseen, päivästä päivään (fi)
• French: jour après jour (fr)
• Georgian: დღენიადაგ (dɣeniadag)
• German: Tag für Tag (de), tagtäglich (de), tagein tagaus (de)
• Greek: μέρα μπαίνει, μέρα βγαίνει (el) (méra baínei, méra vgaínei)
• Hungarian: nap mint nap, éjjel-nappal (hu), nap nap után, napról napra (hu), megállás nélkül
• Icelandic: daginn út og daginn inn, daginn út og inn
• Italian: giorno dopo giorno
• Japanese: 毎日毎日 (まいにちまいにち, mainichi-mainichi), 明けても暮れても (あけてもくれても, aketemo-kuretemo)
• Korean: 하루하루 (ko) (haruharu), 나날이 (ko) (nanari)
• Polish: dzień po dniu (pl)
• Portuguese: todo dia
• Russian: день за днём (denʹ za dnjom), и́зо дня́ в де́нь (ru) (ízo dnjá v dénʹ)
• Spanish: día a día, día sí, día también
• Swedish: dag in och dag ut