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by day

Meaning

by day

During the day.
He is a policeman by day and a thief by night.

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Examples

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night. Edgar Allan Poe

For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods And day by day the dead leaves fall and melt. William Allingham

He who does not lose his way by night will not lose his way by day. Nigerian Proverb

By day they're ready to divorce, by night they're ready for bed. Yiddish Proverb

God deliver us from a gentleman by day and a friar by night. Spanish Proverb

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