day-by-day
[
dey
-bahy-
dey
]
/ˈdeɪ baɪˈdeɪ/
adjective
1.
taking place each day; daily:
a day-by-day account.
Origin
1350-1400;
Middle English
Idioms and Phrases with
day by day
day by day
On each successive day, daily, as in
Day by day he's getting better
. Percy Bysshe Shelley used this expression, first recorded in 1362, in
Adonais
(1821): “fear and grief ... consume us day by day.”