Every day (again)

[Balkenende]

Hi readers,

I'm having a slight brain malfunction, so I'm going to ask you this probably very easy question:

I'm looking for a positive way to say that something happens every day. In Dutch we would literally say 'every day again', but that seems hardly proper English.
'Every single day' has a negative connotation.

As I said, the answer is probably very simple, but I, for the life of me, can't think of it right now...

Many, many thanks,
Joost

 

[White Hat]

It happens daily.
It happens day in, day out.

time and time again

 

[English Freak]

Maybe this is my problem to understand your post. But I think you could simply say "every day" as in "It's rainy here every day". Or "routine" as in "It's a routine for us to have rain here". :-?

 

[Balkenende]

Thanks guys, but we're not quite there yet.
I'll make it more concrete: every day I feel like I'm dreaming.
But the expression I'm looking for, should come after.
So:

It feels like I'm dreaming, ... ... ....

 

[bhaisahab]

Thanks guys, but we're not quite there yet.
I'll make it more concrete: every day I feel like I'm dreaming.
But the expression I'm looking for, should come after.
So:

It feels like I'm dreaming, ... ... ....

Perhaps "...all the time"?

 

[Balkenende]

Thanks, Bhaisahab, that is of course correct. But I'm really looking for something with 'day' in it, and something that explicity stresses the 'repetition' of this 'event'.

 

[riquecohen]

What is your objection to "every day"?
I go to work every day.
I've been having headaches every day.
Do you have breakfast every day?
The newspaper is delivered to my house every day.

 

[Balkenende]

What is your objection to "every day"?
I go to work every day.
I've been having headaches every day.
Do you have breakfast every day?
The newspaper is delivered to my house every day.

Hi Riquecohen - there is no objection as such, but it's too 'neutral' for my purposes. I need an expression with clear positive connotations.

 

[Raymott]

Hi Riquecohen - there is no objection as such, but it's too 'neutral' for my purposes. I need an expression with clear positive connotations.

Is there any reason you can't use "every day" for the temporal adverb, and use some other structure to signal your positive connotations? Why try to torture a phrase into doing something it wasn't meant to?

 

[White Hat]

Thanks guys, but we're not quite there yet.
I'll make it more concrete: every day I feel like I'm dreaming.
But the expression I'm looking for, should come after.
So:

It feels like I'm dreaming, ... ... ....

It feels like I'm dreaming, day in day out.

 

[Balkenende]

Is there any reason you can't use "every day" for the temporal adverb, and use some other structure to signal your positive connotations? Why try to torture a phrase into doing something it wasn't meant to?

I've tried that. It seems funny now, but doing something with the temporal adverb seemed the easiest....:shock:

 

[Balkenende]

It feels like I'm dreaming, day in day out.

The problem is that 'day in, day out' feels like 'a drag', if you know what I mean...?

 

[White Hat]

I don't know what you mean by "drag".

Main Entry: day in and day out
Part of Speech: adverb
Definition: all the time
Synonyms: everyday, month in month out, on and on, regularly, week in week out, without exception, year in year out

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