day by day

every day Day by day things seem to get more expensive.

Related vocabulary: week by week

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."

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Alexandria	al-əg-ZAN-dree-ə	English
Epiphanius	-	Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Krystyna	kris-TI-nah	Polish
Pat	PAT	English
Onni	ON-nee	Finnish
Dana (3)	-	Bulgarian, Macedonian