year in, year out

Idioms  

1. Regularly, every year, as in We've been going to the Cape, year in, year out, ever since we were children. This expression was first recorded in 1830.

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year in, year out

It is challenging enough for them to regularly qualify for the Champions League year in, year out.

From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2026

The drum I’m on convenes twice a year — once in the fall and once again in the spring, year in, year out.

From New York Times ● Aug. 31, 2021

“This is a first for sailing, really, to have a league like this, that’s year in, year out, global, in incredibly fast one-design boats,” Ainslie said from Bermuda.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 22, 2021

“When there’s lives and careers and cost for students at stake you can’t go year in, year out and deliberate.... Now students are performing at a higher level.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2019

But any noxious wretch may damn human souls to the Jago, one after another, year in year out, and we respect his right: his sacred right.'

From A Child of the Jago by Arthur Morrison