“Another day, another dollar”

Entry in progress—B.P. Answers.com Proverbs: Another day, another dollar Quot. 1897 links the form more days, more dollars to sailors being paid by the day: the longer the voyage the greater the financial reward. Later uses suggest that another day, another dollar occurs as world-weary comment on routine toil to earn a living. It has also generated a quantity of by-forms. The common saying, ‘More days, more dollars,’ did not give the usual comfort because the stores were running sho

Read this article...