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Day off

noun

A day when you are not required to work.

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... should be made. A large crowd collected on the wharf as the party embarked, and a clergyman present knelt down and pronounced a prayer for the rescue of the fugitive. No open act of violence was committed, and after laying a day off Nantasket Beach, the schooner proceeded on ...

— The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 • Various

... got to be done this afternoon, my lads, but I'll try to get you a day off to-morrow. Who's ...

— Combed Out • Fritz August Voigt

... day off and ran down to Dunraven, and my impressions were fully confirmed. Mary was a little bit of a woman, with black hair, red lips, white teeth, and two eyes that looked like coals of fire, so bright were they. She was small, but when she took hold of the key, she was jerked lightning, ...

— Danger Signals • John A. Hill and Jasper Ewing Brady

... visit, and will push me violently in the chest when I get near her; her golden-haired infant will say I am a bad man and may even refuse to kiss me. The comic man will cover me with humorous opprobrium, and the villagers will get a day off and hang about the village pub and hoot me. Everybody will see through my villainy, and I shall be nabbed in the end. I always am. But it is no matter, I will ...

— Stage-Land • Jerome K. Jerome

... the bumper crop of curly black hair. He blinks his big, full eyes kind of solemn, starin' at me puzzled, and about as intelligent as a cow gazin' over a fence. An odd lookin' gink he was, sort of a cross between a dressed up bartender on his day off and a longshoreman havin' ...

— On With Torchy • Sewell Ford

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