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day after day en · ADV

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic, not-comparable) For an indefinite number of days.
    • Throughout October the campaign in Korea made excellent progress. Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, was taken on October 19, and day after day MacArthur's forces were on the march. 1956, Harry S. Truman, chapter 24, in Memoirs of Harry S. Truman: Years of Trial And Hope, volume II, Doubleday & Company, →OCLC, page 371:
    • Day after day it reappears Night after night my heartbeat shows the fear Ghosts appear and fade away 1983, Men At Work, “Overkill”, in Cargo:
    • Day after day they added entries.
    • The images we see day after day numb us.
    • Fine, I will. And YOU can start washing your OWN clothes, and fixing your OWN meals, and picking up your OWN toys, and making your OWN bed, and cleaning up your OWN messes, day after day after DAY! 1989 July 11, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes (comic strip):

Coordinates

second after second · year after year · month after month · hour after hour · night after night · minute after minute

Relateds

dayslong § Related terms

Translations (36)

sv dag efter dag (For an indefinite number of days) · crx lhan'at dzin (For an indefinite number of days) · hi दिन प्रतिदिन (For an indefinite number of days) · io diope (For an indefinite number of days) · ar يَوْمًا بَعْدَ يَوْم (For an indefinite number of days) · ja 連日 (For an indefinite number of days) · de Tag für Tag (For an indefinite number of days) · et päev-päevalt (For an indefinite number of days) · ja 来る日も来る日も (For an indefinite number of days) · hu nap nap után (For an indefinite number of days) · hu nap mint nap (For an indefinite number of days) · ms hari demi hari (For an indefinite number of days) · ro zi de zi (For an indefinite number of days) · pl dzień za dniem (For an indefinite number of days) · es día tras día (For an indefinite number of days) · tr günden güne (For an indefinite number of days) · cmn 連日 /连日 (For an indefinite number of days) · cmn 日復一日 /日复一日 (For an indefinite number of days) · hi तारीख पर तारीख (For an indefinite number of days) · da dag efter dag (For an indefinite number of days) · hu napról napra (For an indefinite number of days) · pl dzień w dzień (For an indefinite number of days) · nl dag in dag uit (For an indefinite number of days) · no dag etter dag (For an indefinite number of days) · fi päivä toisensa jälkeen (For an indefinite number of days) · vi ngày này qua ngày khác (For an indefinite number of days) · az günbəgün (For an indefinite number of days) · pt dia após dia (For an indefinite number of days) · eo tagon post tago (For an indefinite number of days) · hi तारीख पे तारीख (For an indefinite number of days) · it giorno dopo giorno (For an indefinite number of days) · az gündən günə (For an indefinite number of days) · bg ден след ден (For an indefinite number of days) · ru день за днём (For an indefinite number of days) · fr jour après jour (For an indefinite number of days) · ko 연일 (For an indefinite number of days)