day after day
Again and again
Day after day describes something happening repeatedly over many consecutive days, emphasizing monotony or persistence.
The phrase suggests weariness or determination depending on context: Day after day, she sat by the window waiting for news.
He practiced the same scales day after day until his fingers ached.
- day-to-dayOccurring each twenty-four hours
- over and overIn constant repetition
- day by dayProgressively, over successive periods
- day in day outContinuously without variation
- relentlesslyWithout stopping or weakening
time and again · same old same old · daily · persistently · again and again · continually · repetitive · humdrum · regularly · perpetual · tedious · treadmill · slog · drudgery · repeatedly · grind · rat race · unvaried
- repetitionagain, repeat, repeated, recurring, recurrence
- gradual phrasesbit by bit, little by little, step by step, one by one, piece by piece
day after daysporadically
At irregular intervals
intermittently · occasionally · once in a while · irregularly · infrequently
day after daybriefly
In few words
momentarily · fleetingly · for a moment · temporarily · ephemerally
after, holiday, days, midday, yesterday, birthday, workday, daybreak, daytime