take it/things day by day

idiom

: to make progress in a slow and careful way by dealing with each day as it comes

He hopes to make a full recovery after his surgery, but right now he's just taking it day by day.

I don't know if our relationship is going to work out. I'm taking things day by day at this point.

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The lyrics are shaped by addiction recovery and suicide-prevention best practices—urging the friend to just take it day by day—but the language is casual and warm. —

Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 23 Feb. 2024 Hadley Vlahos: Don’t be afraid to ask for help and take it day by day. —

Hannah Dylan Pasternak, SELF, 12 Dec. 2023 There’s no timetable for Hamlin’s recovery, as doctors continue to take things day by day. —

Tyler Dragon, USA TODAY, 6 Jan. 2023 With this disease, it’s forced me to take things day by day. —

House Beautiful, 1 Dec. 2022 And that’s important, to just take it day by day and minute by minute, hour by hour, and live our lives like that. —

Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 22 May 2021

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