daily grind

noun

The difficult, routine, or monotonous tasks of daily work.

“As soon as he has the money to retire, he plans to leave the daily grind and travel more.”

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Meanings

noundaily grind (plural daily grinds)

plural daily grinds

  1. idiomaticinformalThe difficult, routine, or monotonous tasks of daily work.

    As soon as he has the money to retire, he plans to leave the daily grind and travel more.

    1 more example

    “Why bother with the daily grind when you can go to Mosul, get paid $400 a month, get a wife – and live an Islamic way,” went an exchange between two men overheard by a fellow passenger in a taxi. Rumour has it that a woman whose husband died fighting with Isis now receives a generous widow’s pension from jihadi coffers.

    2014 November 27, Ian Black, “Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis”, in The Guardian
Cite this entry
APA

daily grind. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/daily%20grind

MLA

“daily grind.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/daily%20grind. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “daily grind,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/daily%20grind.

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