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order of the day

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the order of the day
an appropriate or common activity. When business is bad, cost-cutting is the order of the day. Sadly, cheating seems to be the order of the day.
See also: day, order

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We gazed helplessly at the systematic, cold, gray-eyed obstinacy of the Easterly weather, while short rations became the order of the day, and the pinch of hunger under the breast-bone grew familiar to every sailor in that held-up fleet.
Tikhon knew that neither the son's arrival nor any other unusual event must be allowed to disturb the appointed order of the day.
The order of the day had been carefully arranged by a committee.
 
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