"All in a day's work" [closed]

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What does "All in a day's work" mean? The online dictionaries aren't very detailed on that. How did this idiom come to be? Was there some meaningful context to it originally?

"All in a day's work" refers to any task that is done routinely. It can be negative (e.g. tasks you don't care for doing), neutral, ironic, etc. based upon speaker preferences.

As for origins, the definitions made reference to nautical navigation, and I believe they were referring to Celestial Navigation. Celestial Navigation involved using a celestial body (e.g. the sun, moon, stars) to navigate oceans. They could correct their course by using a sextant and the visible horizon in relation to various celestial bodies. It had to be done frequently (though I'm not sure how often), thus is was part of a day's work.