night and day

1. Also day and night. Continually, without stopping. This phrase is used either literally, as in The alarm is on night and day, or hyperbolically, as in We were working day and night on these drawings. Shakespeare put it by night and day in The Comedy of Errors (4:2): “Time comes stealing on by night and day.”

Example Sentences

Said coach Greg Fontenette: “His development has been like night and day.”

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Although I’m familiar with all of these arrangements, I’ve never been able to hear them with such clarity, such as the piano notes behind the singer on the quieter passages of “Night and Day” as well as the percussion pattern and the guitar part that help “What Makes the Sunset?” sound more like a bolero.

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But in the meantime, Noem and Lewandowski are working night and day together, preparing for the next step in her political career.

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The two girls are “wildly different, they’re night and day,” McLachlan says.

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“Going from high school water polo to the junior level is like night and day,” he said.

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