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by the day
Idioms and Phrases
Also, by the hour or week or month or year . According to a specific time period, as in I'm renting this car by the day , or He's being paid by the hour . This usage generally describes some kind of rate. [1400s]Example Sentences
The cleaner-by-the-day will do the grubby things and I shall like it.
But Margaret-by-the-day proved an interesting game, if it did slip a cog or two in its development.
This had been altered so often, Grace proposed following Margaret's plan of "fun-by-the-day."
Me, Tommy-by-the-Day the baby echoed, patting his chest with one pudgy hand.
There is a cook and a cleaner-by-the-day, and the new maid-companion, so she should be reasonably well looked after.
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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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