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day off
Idioms and Phrases
A day away from work, school, or a similar obligation; a free day. For example, Sophie always used her day off to do errands . [Late 1800s]Example Sentences
I’ve been a member there for years, and sometimes when I have a whole day off, I’ll go there for awhile.
Chatsworth students had the day off from school Thursday in observance of Armenian Genocide Memorial Day.
“Having two days off, I think today he just came a little anxious.”
A migrant social care worker has said her employer threatened to cancel her visa if she complained about being forced to work long hours without any days off.
Piotr Peruki, whose house backs on to the scene, slept in his car and took a day off work due to exhaustion and shock.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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