Name: Englisch Redewendung 40/100: All in a day's work
Uploaded: 2015-01-29T14:01:01.000Z
Duration: 2 min 53 s
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Welcome to Idiom 100, where we learn 100 commonly used idioms by native English speakers.

All of the explanations are in English, so it might be challenging for you,

but just try to imagine the meanings in your head and study hard and soon you'll be able to use these idioms in your conversations.

Alright, so let's imagine you have a piece of paper and you're going to list down what you have to do.

So let's see... wake up, take a shower, eat breakfast... eat lunch, watch TV, go to work, eat dinner, go to bed.

And you make this list and you think, 'What shall we call this?' Well, this is a day and this is my day's work, what I have to do.

Okay, this is all in a day's work, what I'm going to do.

Alright, so let's listen to the examples and think about this idiom.

It was all in a day’s work, nothing special!

Alright, so he just did his regular work today, nothing special, so he said, 'All in a day's work.'

Alright, let's listen to the other example.

For me it would be, all in a day's work, no problems and nothing new.

Alright, so if you guessed it, this idiom means kind of a normal day, okay? Nothing special happened.

And you can also use it to emphasize that you had a normal day.

Yeah, maybe someone thinks you worked very hard, yeah?

You had 2 meetings and a conference call and many things and you were so busy,

but you say, 'Ah, no, no, no, no. It's all in a day's work.'

It means, I'm fine. It was a normal   day for me. Don't think it's special.

Alright, so next time you're talking about your busy day or something

and you don't want someone to worry about that you were too busy or worked too hard,

you can tell them, 'Ah, no, it's all in a day's work. It's fine.'