night and day

Also day and night. Continually, without stopping. This phrase is used either literally, as in The alarm is on night and day, or hyperbolically, as in We were working day and night on these drawings. Shakespeare put it by night and day in The Comedy of Errors (4:2): "Time comes stealing on by night and day."

The adjective has one meaning:

Meaning #1: at all times
  Synonyms: around-the-clock, nonstop, round-the-clock

Night and Day may mean:

• "Night and Day (song)", written by Cole Porter
• Night and Day (film), the 1946 movie about Cole Porter's life
• Night and Day (album), by Joe Jackson
• Night and Day (novel), by Virginia Woolf
• Night and Day (play), a 1978 play by Tom Stoppard
• "Night & Day (single)", a 1994 single by Dawn Penn
• Night and Day (TV series), a British soap opera
• Night & Day Big Band, a 1995 album by the band Chicago
• Night & Day, a contact lens by CIBA Vision
• Night and Day, a magazine supplement of the Mail on Sunday, a British newspaper
• Night and Day Café, a live music venue/bar in Manchester

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