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night and day
Idioms and Phrases
Also day and night . Continually, without stopping. This phrase is used either literally, as in The alarm is on night and day , or hyperbolically, as in We were working day and night on these drawings . Shakespeare put it by night and day in The Comedy of Errors (4:2): “Time comes stealing on by night and day.”Example Sentences
The difference between Carlo’s dance move and Randy’s was like night and day.
Ann Bigger, who only took up the combat sport in January, earned her yellow striped belt on Monday after practising night and day.
It's night and day from the situation in Scotland.
"We were having phone calls night and day, there were an awful lot of threats to my dad," she said.
Anton's regular destination these days is the industrial city of Pokrovsk, which he says is "being attacked night and day".
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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