live from day to day
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"We live from day to day," he explains, returning to his counter.
From Time Magazine Archive
Whiteford began to live from day to day.
From Time Magazine Archive
We forgot to live from day to day, to scrape up a few bucks every now and then maybe and take in a show on Ceres or have a weekend on Vesta.
From The Graveyard of Space by Marlowe, Stephen
They know how to be happy, how to live from day to day, in godlike indifference to what may come next.
From Fifty-Two Story Talks to Boys and Girls by Chidley, Howard J. (Howard James)
And how many millions there are who live from day to day by the incessant operation of subtle processes in them, of which they know nothing, and care less?
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Melville, Herman
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