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noun Informal.
a set of calisthenic exercises to be done each day, originally a set of 12 or more such exercises.
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Origin of daily dozen
An Americanism dating back to 1915ā20
Words nearby daily dozen
DĆ”il Ćireann, dailies, daily, daily-breader, daily double, daily dozen, daimen, Daimler, Daimoku, daimon, daimyo
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daily dozen
Physical exercise, as in Helen walks two miles every morningāthat's her daily dozen. This term originally referred to a set of twelve specific calisthenic exercises to be performed every day. They were devised by a famous Yale University football coach, Walter Camp (1859ā1925), and came into general use in the early 1900s. Despite the physical fitness craze of the late 1900s, these exercises and their name are no longer taken literally, but the term survives in a very general way.
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