day after day

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   each day repeatedly (used especially when sth is boring or annoying)

   Here I am, slaving day after day, washing and ironing 'til my fingers bleed.

   Their family drops them off here, and day after day they just wait,

In the movies · 9

• ...you sit there, day after day,Oppenheimer2023
• Their family drops them off here, and day after day they just wait,Rescued by Ruby2022
• Here I am, slaving day after day, washing and ironing 'til my fingers bleed.Sons of the Desert1933
• Day after day.Bird Box2018
• Her flesh, picked off, day after day.Speak2004
• Did a job I enjoyed, day after day.Yesterday2019
• I see it day after day, week after week.Sing 22021
• ... it goes on day after day, month after month.The Aviator2004

Learn it in full scenes

• Oppenheimer2023
  • Bohr Sends Oppenheimer to Göttingen
  • Strauss Offers Oppenheimer a Job
  • Rabi Meets Oppenheimer on a Train

From the same entry

• all in a day's work
• any day
• carry the day
• day by day
• day in, day out
• a day of reckoning
• days are numbered
• from day one
• from day to day
• from one day to the next
• have had your day
• have seen better days

More idioms

• have your hands full
• for nothing
• any luck
• speak your mind
• in face
• no offence
• beg pardon
• come to mind
• no hard feelings
• make the best of
• be for the best
• as good as