twenty-four hours a day

idiom

: all day and night
The store is open twenty-four hours a day.

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Their Countdown To Christmas, filling their networks with festive films twenty-four hours a day is celebrating 15 years this season. Rebecca Angel Baer, Southern Living, 13 Dec. 2024 Classical music, which was thought to be calming for the wines and the workers, played twenty-four hours a day. Boris Fishman, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024 New York City will acquire the ability to walk from one neighborhood to the next with ease and a vast subway system that operates twenty-four hours a day. Jiji Lee, The New Yorker, 3 Dec. 2023 Before the pandemic, Uncle Paul’s was open twenty-four hours a day. Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2023 In an adjoining room, intelligence analysts who are on duty twenty-four hours a day stood behind banks of blinking monitors. Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2022 The wait to pay tribute to Queen Elizabeth’s coffin winds along the Thames River for roughly five miles of shoulder-to-shoulder British subjects in constant procession, twenty-four hours a day, from yesterday to Monday morning, just hours before the Queen’s funeral. Richard Morgan, Town & Country, 15 Sep. 2022 This far north the sun held above them nearly twenty-four hours a day. Elliot Ackerman, Wired, 2 Mar. 2021 Eugene, Oregon—Every call that is dispatched through the radio, twenty-four hours a day, to the CAHOOTS crisis responders is a tiny mystery, a staticky, incomplete assemblage of details. Krithika Varagur, The New York Review of Books, 18 Sep. 2020

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