Three days
Meaning
"Three days" means a span of 72 hours, used to mark deadlines, waits, or travel plans. It usually implies consecutive days in a row, regardless of weekends or holidays.
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Examples
Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.
Fish and visitors smell in three days.
You Americans, you treat the Third World in the way an Iraqi peasant treats his new bride. Three days of honeymoon, and then it's off to the fields.
After three days without reading, talk becomes flavorless.
Anyone who goes hungry for three days will be inclined to steal.
Woman was born three days earlier than the devil.