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day job
noun
- one's regular job and main source of income, usually viewed in contrast to a speculative or irregular endeavor:
Good luck in the lottery, but don't quit your day job.
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Example Sentences
And still, because their day-job world seems so shallow and so removed, we laugh.
It was an all-day job, however, and another night was fairly upon me before I started for Oneida, sixteen miles away.
All this time Wight was as cool and possessed as if it was an every-day job with him.
Their every-day job, in short, is to get something well done with maximum dispatch and at minimum expense.
The next week he got only a half-day job, taking a party of ladies and gentlemen across the lake.
An' didn't I have to turn down his offer an' hang on to a dollar-a-day job?
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