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day job

noun

  1. 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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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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