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day's-work|ˈdeɪzwɜːk|
(Also written as two words.) a. The work of a day, work done on or proper to a day. Also = daywork 2 (obs.).
1594Shakes. Rich. III, ii. i. 1 Now haue I done a good daies work. 1610W. Folkingham Art of Survey ii. vii. 59 Foure square Pearches make a Daiesworke, 10 Daie-workes a Roode. 1640G. H. Witt's Recreations H ij a, Your dayes work's done, each morning as you rise. c1836Gen. P. Thompson Exerc. (1842) IV. 395 Paying him for more day's works. c1850Rudim. Navig. (Weale) 10 The logboard, the contents of which are termed ‘the log’,—the working it off, ‘the day's work’.
b. all in the day's work, something unusual but nevertheless taken as part of one's ordinary duty or routine. Freq. ironical.
[1738Swift Polite Conv. i. 39 Will you be so kind to tie this String for me..? it will go all in your Day's Work.] 1820Scott Monast. I. ix. 248 That will cost me a farther ride,..but it is all in the day's work. 1857Kingsley Two Y. Ago iii. iii. 91 All in the day's work, my boy. 1897[see work n. 33]. 1939War Illustr. 220/2 He is not deeply impressed by his experience. ‘It is all in the day's work’ were his parting words to me. 1953A. Christie Pocket full of Rye x. 60 This sort of thing seems ordinary enough to you, Inspector. All in the day's work. |